Willow Grove Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10.

Cost burden runs 49% here against 42.6% across Montgomery County. 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: 29 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2006, when 4.3% 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 19% 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 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $144,792, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.