Willow Grove Eviction Risk: Lower

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10.

Against the Montgomery County average of 4.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 16 evictions over 7 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,929, 9% above the Willow Grove average.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 5.2% of renter households. 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 13% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.3/10.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $132,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.