Stevens Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lancaster
Tract 42071000800 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 3,989 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
How risky is the Stevens area of Lancaster for landlords? Census tract 42071000800 scores 6.4/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
38% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 12% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,010 a month against an average household income of $44,333 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 54% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0331, -76.2892 · click any tract to drill in
Why Stevens scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Stevens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%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)
- 523Total filings over 7 yrs
- 9.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.7%Peak (2004)
- 77Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Stevens
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. 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 above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 523 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 10.0% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 12.7% of renter households in 2004.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 92nd 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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