Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Fairless Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42017105807 · Bucks County, PA · pop 3,913 · 91% of tract blocks fall in Fairless Hills
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 42017105807 in Fairless Hills, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,913. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,548
Renter share55.3%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate16.0%
Median income$60,962
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
94
th percentile
Very High
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
National
72
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fairless Hills and the region
Centroid at 40.1715, -74.8604 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairless Hills scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fairless Hills
5.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.2
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
16.0% poverty · this tract
4.0
Supply constraint
$1,197 rent vs county FMR
1.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fairless Hills
8.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fairless Hills
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fairless Hills
7.2
How Fairless Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
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)
- 390Total filings over 7 yrs
- 8.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.4%Peak (2000)
- 29Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 71% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fairless Hills
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Bucks County average of 41.8%.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Bucks County average of 4.0. Court records carry 390 eviction filings across 7 observed years.
Average gross rent is $1,197, 12% below the Fairless Hills average. The worst year on record was 2000, when 15.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
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 42017105807
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42017105807?
Census tract 42017105807 in Fairless Hills scores 5.5/10 (Moderate 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 42017105807?
Median gross rent is $1,197/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42017105807?
16.0% of residents in tract 42017105807 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,913.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42017105807?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 37th, minority 35th, housing 66th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42017105807?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 390 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42017105807 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.40% of renter households, peaking at 15.4% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42017105807 compare to Fairless Hills overall?
Tract 42017105807 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Fairless Hills at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fairless Hills; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Fairless Hills
Top eight tracts in Fairless Hills ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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