Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Elevated , Harrisburg
Tract 42043021300 · Dauphin County, PA · pop 5,581 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42043021300 covers part of the Mount Pleasant area of Harrisburg, PA, and scores 7.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,581. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Dauphin County average of 39.0%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisburg and the region
Centroid at 40.2611, -76.8661 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mount Pleasant scores 7.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mount Pleasant compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 52%Grade B
- 9%Grade C
- 18%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)
- 2,184Total filings over 6 yrs
- 27.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 31.3%Peak (2002)
- 297Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Mount Pleasant
The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
It sits 2.7 points above the Dauphin County average of 4.6. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10.
This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running hot, economic stress reads 7.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,184 filings here across 6 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 31.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Harrisburg. 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 27.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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