New Fox Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Harrisburg
Tract 42043020300 · Dauphin County, PA · pop 2,252 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 7.3/10, tract 42043020300 in the New Fox Ridge area of Harrisburg, PA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,252 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisburg and the region
Centroid at 40.2700, -76.8862 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Fox Ridge scores 7.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Fox Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 85%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 31%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 69%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)
- 431Total filings over 6 yrs
- 8.53%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.4%Peak (2000)
- 51Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within New Fox Ridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in New Fox Ridge
It sits 2.7 points above the Dauphin County average of 4.6. Running hot, economic stress reads 9.6/10. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Cost burden runs 29% here against 39.0% across Dauphin County.
Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Court records carry 431 eviction filings across 6 observed years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 11.4% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 8.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 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.
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