Norristown Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 42091203601 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 2,636
Norristown is where census tract 42091203601 sits, home to 2,636 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 7.1/10. On the national scale it ranks #4,089 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 63% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,106 monthly, set against $32,468 in average yearly household income, roughly 41% 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 Norristown and the region
Centroid at 40.1227, -75.3377 · click any tract to drill in
Why Norristown scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Norristown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%Housing & transportation
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)
- 509Total filings over 7 yrs
- 13.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.9%Peak (2006)
- 87Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Norristown
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.6/10. 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 Norristown eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Montgomery County average of 5.4 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 509 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 13.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 15.9% of renter households in 2006.
The tract is Black and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 97th 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.
About tract 42091203601
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Highest-risk tracts in Norristown
Top eight tracts in Norristown ranked by composite eviction-risk score.