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Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally

Hawthorne Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

Tract 41051000801 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 4,646 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 41051000801 covers part of the Hawthorne area of Portland, OR, and scores 6.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,646 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10.

Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 23% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units2,138
Renter share40.2%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$120,846

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Hawthorne
Moderate
Within parent city
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#135 of 168 tracts In Portland
Very Low
Within county
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#145 of 197 tracts In Multnomah County
Low
Within state
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#419 of 994 tracts In Oregon
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Portland and the region

Centroid at 45.5014, -122.6109 · click any tract to drill in

Why Hawthorne scores 6.4

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
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,757 rent vs county FMR
3.8
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 Hawthorne compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Hawthorne risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.4This tracttract 0008017.7Portlandparent city7.4Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 24

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 284Total filings over 16 yrs
  • 2.23%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.9%Peak (2001)
  • 8Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 41051000801
Filings dropped 71% over the past 16 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 120Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 6.67×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 Hawthorne. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Hawthorne

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Multnomah County average of 49.7%. Against the Multnomah County average of 7.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 284 filings here across 16 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 5.9% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.2/10.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $120,846, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 41051000801

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051000801?

Census tract 41051000801 in the Hawthorne neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (Elevated 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 41051000801?

Median gross rent is $1,757/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051000801?

8.2% of residents in tract 41051000801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,646.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051000801?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 19th, minority 27th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 41051000801 considered part of Hawthorne?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051000801 fall within Hawthorne (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 41051000801?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 284 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 41051000801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.23% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 41051000801 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 6.67× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Pittsburgh, PA), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 41051000801 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051000801 scores 6.4/10, lower 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.
Q9

Was tract 41051000801 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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