Central Business District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lancaster
Tract 42071000100 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 2,464 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
In the Central Business District neighborhood of Lancaster, census tract 42071000100 scores 5.7/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than about 63% of US census tracts.
About 40% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,096 a month while the average household earns $49,509 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 85% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0395, -76.3062 · click any tract to drill in
Why Central Business District scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central Business District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 69%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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
- 7%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)
- 1,105Total filings over 7 yrs
- 15.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.8%Peak (2000)
- 169Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Central Business District
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lancaster eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Lancaster County average of 5.3 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,105 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 15.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 15.8% of renter households in 2000.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 85th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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