East Side Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lancaster
Tract 42071000200 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 2,853 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
42071000200 is a census tract in the East Side area of Lancaster, PA. It scores 5.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,853 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0483, -76.2880 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Side scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Side compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 25%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
- 25%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)
- 326Total filings over 7 yrs
- 12.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.0%Peak (2000)
- 47Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Side. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in East Side
The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Lancaster County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 326 eviction filings across 7 observed years.
Running hot, housing-court posture reads 6.9/10. Filings peaked in 2000 at 14.0% of renter households.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lancaster. 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 12.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $82,813, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
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.
About tract 42071000200
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