Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Viscose Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chester
Tract 42045405300 · Delaware County, PA · pop 2,775 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
With a score of 7.8/10, tract 42045405300 in the Viscose Village area of Chester, PA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,775. Severe burden reaches 66%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units1,146
Renter share34.2%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate25.9%
Median income$51,667
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
9
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Chester and the region
Centroid at 39.8392, -75.3945 · click any tract to drill in
Why Viscose Village scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Chester
6.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
25.9% poverty · this tract
6.5
Supply constraint
$1,134 rent vs county FMR
1.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chester
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chester
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chester
8.8
How Viscose Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 7%Grade B
- 33%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.
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)
- 1,117Total filings over 7 yrs
- 23.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 32.4%Peak (2002)
- 169Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Viscose Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Viscose Village
Against Delaware County at 50.9%, 76% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Delaware County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.1 points.
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10.
On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
The filing record is not thin: 1,117 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 32.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 23.8% 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 6/10.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42045405300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42045405300?
Census tract 42045405300 in the Viscose Village neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (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 42045405300?
Median gross rent is $1,134/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 76% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42045405300?
25.9% of residents in tract 42045405300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,775.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42045405300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 73th, minority 95th, housing 18th.
Q5
Is tract 42045405300 considered part of Viscose Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42045405300 fall within Viscose Village (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42045405300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,117 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42045405300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 23.81% of renter households, peaking at 32.4% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 42045405300 compare to Chester overall?
Tract 42045405300 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Chester at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chester eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 42045405300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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/ 10 · High
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