Flourtown Eviction Risk: Lower

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10.

Against Montgomery County at 42.6%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 26 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against the Montgomery County average of 4.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Philadelphia. 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 1.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $123,250, annual rent is just 18%. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,817, close to the Flourtown average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.