Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,433 of 84,120 nationally
Nob Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland
Tract 41051004700 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 4,108 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 41051004700 sits in the Nob Hill area of Portland eviction risk, OR, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.7/10. It is home to 4,108 residents. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units2,341
Renter share75.1%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate10.1%
Median income$79,583
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
56
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
86
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Portland and the region
Centroid at 45.5309, -122.7033 · click any tract to drill in
Why Nob Hill scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
10.1% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,578 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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 Nob Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 3%Grade A
- 47%Grade B
- 39%Grade C
- 6%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.
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)
- 578Total filings over 16 yrs
- 2.03%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2000)
- 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 65% over the past 16 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 312Total filings 2020-21
- 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.40×Ratio to 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 Nob Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Nob Hill
The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 578 filings here across 16 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2000 at 3.2% of renter households.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 4.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 41051004700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051004700?
Census tract 41051004700 in the Nob Hill neighborhood scores 7.7/10 (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 41051004700?
Median gross rent is $1,578/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 41051004700?
10.1% of residents in tract 41051004700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,108.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 41051004700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 1th, minority 36th, housing 87th.
Q5
Is tract 41051004700 considered part of Nob Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051004700 fall within Nob Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 41051004700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 578 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 41051004700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.03% of renter households, peaking at 3.2% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 41051004700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.40× 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 41051004700 compare to Portland overall?
Tract 41051004700 scores 7.7/10, right in line with 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 41051004700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 6% 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.
Tract · OR
Chinatown
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Ladd's Addition
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Gilbert
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Chinatown
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Gilbert
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Nob Hill
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Powellhurst
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · OR
Chinatown
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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