Hoverter Homes Eviction Risk: Elevated , Harrisburg
Tract 42043021400 · Dauphin County, PA · pop 5,339 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Hoverter Homes in Harrisburg is where census tract 42043021400 sits, home to 5,339 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 6.9/10. On the national scale it ranks #6,202 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 40% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is about $735 a month. Renters make up 77% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisburg and the region
Centroid at 40.2468, -76.8652 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hoverter Homes scores 7.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hoverter Homes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 100
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 8%Grade B
- 23%Grade C
- 11%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 965Total filings over 6 yrs
- 13.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.2%Peak (2001)
- 149Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Hoverter Homes
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Harrisburg eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Dauphin County average of 5.9 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Black and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 100th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 965 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 13.0% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 16.2% of renter households in 2001.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 42043021400
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