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Neighborhood · Ranked #3,797 of 84,120 nationally

Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , Portland

Tract 41051002101 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 1,704 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 41051002101 sits in the Chinatown area of Portland eviction risk, OR, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.1/10. It is home to 1,704 residents. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Risk score
9.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 61% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units1,080
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate23.8%
Median income$73,043

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 8 tracts In Chinatown
Very High
Within parent city
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 168 tracts In Portland
Very High
Within county
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#24 of 197 tracts In Multnomah County
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 994 tracts In Oregon
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Portland and the region

Centroid at 45.5233, -122.6612 · click any tract to drill in

Why Chinatown scores 9.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Portland
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
Oregon legislature & governorship
7.2
Economic stress
23.8% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$1,684 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Portland
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Portland
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Portland
8.5

How Chinatown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Chinatown risk score vs. parent city / county / state9.1This tracttract 0021017.7Portlandparent city7.4Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 57

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 543Total filings 2020-21
  • 7.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 3.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Chinatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Chinatown

The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Cost burden runs 39% here against 49.7% across Multnomah County. Against the Multnomah County average of 7.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Portland. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #3,797 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,684, close to the Portland average.

Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $73,043.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 41051002101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051002101?

Census tract 41051002101 in the Chinatown neighborhood scores 9.1/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 41051002101?

Median gross rent is $1,684/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051002101?

23.8% of residents in tract 41051002101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,704.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051002101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 3th, minority 46th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 41051002101 considered part of Chinatown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051002101 fall within Chinatown (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 41051002101 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 3.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Pittsburgh, PA), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 41051002101 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051002101 scores 9.1/10, higher than the parent city of Portland at 7.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Portland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 41051002101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 24% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Portland

Top eight tracts in Portland ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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