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

Portsmouth Eviction Risk: High , Portland

Tract 41051004003 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 7,935 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 41051004003 sits in the Portsmouth area of Portland eviction risk, OR, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.1/10. It is home to 7,935 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
9.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 20% Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units2,947
Renter share43.2%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate31.3%
Median income$69,063

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Portsmouth
Moderate
Within parent city
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 168 tracts In Portland
Very High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 197 tracts In Multnomah County
Very 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 45.5879, -122.7224 · click any tract to drill in

Why Portsmouth 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
31.3% poverty · this tract
7.8
Supply constraint
$1,442 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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 Portsmouth compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Portsmouth risk score vs. parent city / county / state9.1This tracttract 0040037.7Portlandparent city7.4Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 327Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.16×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Portsmouth

The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.7 points above the Multnomah County average of 7.4. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,442, 13% below the Portland average. 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.

Nationally it ranks #3,797 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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. 53% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $69,063.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 41051004003

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051004003?

Census tract 41051004003 in the Portsmouth 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 41051004003?

Median gross rent is $1,442/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051004003?

31.3% of residents in tract 41051004003 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,935.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051004003?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 90th, minority 72th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 41051004003 considered part of Portsmouth?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051004003 fall within Portsmouth (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 41051004003 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.16× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Pittsburgh, PA), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 41051004003 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051004003 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 41051004003 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.
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