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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Chinatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 24%Grade D · redlined
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.
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
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chinatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
About tract 41051002101
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