Willow Grove Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42091200307 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 2,590 · 97% of tract blocks fall in Willow Grove
42091200307 is a census tract in Willow Grove, PA. It scores 5.3/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,590. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.4/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Willow Grove and the region
Centroid at 40.1539, -75.1145 · click any tract to drill in
Why Willow Grove scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Willow Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 6%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)
- 68Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.2%Peak (2006)
- 15Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Willow Grove
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Montgomery County average of 42.6%.
11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.0 points above the Montgomery County average of 4.3.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 68 filings here across 7 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,685, close to the Willow Grove average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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