Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally
Roslyn Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42091201706 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 5,723 · 6% of tract blocks fall in Roslyn
With a score of 4.4/10, tract 42091201706 in Roslyn, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,723 residents. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units2,052
Renter share20.0%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate12.9%
Median income$107,857
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
54
th percentile
Moderate
National
49
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Roslyn and the region
Centroid at 40.1132, -75.1385 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roslyn scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Roslyn
8.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
12.9% poverty · this tract
3.2
Supply constraint
$1,404 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Roslyn
2.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Roslyn
4.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Roslyn
3.6
How Roslyn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 46%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 181Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2006)
- 36Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 29% over the past 7 months.
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Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Roslyn
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.4/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.7/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 181 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against Montgomery County at 42.6%, 47% of renters here are cost-burdened. Filings peaked in 2006 at 7.8% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 20% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 3.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $107,857, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42091201706
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42091201706?
Census tract 42091201706 in Roslyn scores 4.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 42091201706?
Median gross rent is $1,404/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42091201706?
12.9% of residents in tract 42091201706 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,723.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42091201706?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 50th, minority 50th, housing 26th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42091201706?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 181 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42091201706 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.82% of renter households, peaking at 7.8% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42091201706 compare to Roslyn overall?
Tract 42091201706 scores 4.4/10, higher than the parent city of Roslyn at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Roslyn; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 42091201706 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
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