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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

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%.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 45% Stable renters 27% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,667
Renter share71.6%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate29.1%
Median income$41,206

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Mount Pleasant
Moderate
Within parent city
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#6 of 14 tracts In Harrisburg
Elevated
Within county
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 67 tracts In Dauphin County
Very High
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Harrisburg
5.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
29.1% poverty · this tract
7.3
Supply constraint
$1,082 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Harrisburg
5.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Harrisburg
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Harrisburg
7.1

How Mount Pleasant compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Mount Pleasant risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0213005.9Harrisburgparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 2,184Total filings over 6 yrs
  • 27.88%Avg annual filing rate
  • 31.3%Peak (2002)
  • 297Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42043021300
Filings dropped 23% over the past 6 months.
Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 42043021300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42043021300?

Census tract 42043021300 in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (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 42043021300?

Median gross rent is $1,082/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42043021300?

29.1% of residents in tract 42043021300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,581.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42043021300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 96th, minority 85th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 42043021300 considered part of Mount Pleasant?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42043021300 fall within Mount Pleasant (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42043021300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,184 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 42043021300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 27.88% of renter households, peaking at 31.3% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42043021300 compare to Harrisburg overall?

Tract 42043021300 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Harrisburg at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Harrisburg eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42043021300 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. 18% 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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