Brookhaven Borough Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 42045404500 · Delaware County, PA · pop 4,848 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 42045404500 covers part of the Brookhaven Borough area of Chester, PA, and scores 7.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Brookhaven and the region
Centroid at 39.8685, -75.3687 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brookhaven Borough scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brookhaven Borough compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 49%Grade A
- 12%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 2,291Total filings over 7 yrs
- 28.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 39.6%Peak (2000)
- 253Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Brookhaven Borough. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Brookhaven Borough
Cost burden runs roughly three in four here against 50.9% across Delaware County. It sits 3.1 points above the Delaware County average of 4.7.
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10.
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $35,789, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,291 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 39.6% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 28.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 42045404500
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Highest-risk tracts in Brookhaven
Top eight tracts in Brookhaven ranked by composite eviction-risk score.