Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Willow Grove Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 42091201608 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 5,013 · 17% of tract blocks fall in Willow Grove
Census tract 42091201608 covers part of Willow Grove, PA, and scores 3.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,013 residents. Cost burden runs 79% here against 42.6% across Montgomery County.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 4%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,903
Renter share17.9%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate5.0%
Median income$139,526
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Within state
27
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Willow Grove and the region
Centroid at 40.1225, -75.1073 · click any tract to drill in
Why Willow Grove scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Willow Grove
8.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
5.0% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,339 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Willow Grove
4.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Willow Grove
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Willow Grove
4.1
How Willow Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 23%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 36%Grade A
- 21%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)
- 40Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.0%Peak (2006)
- 9Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Willow Grove
The severe-burden share is 36%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.3/10.
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10. At $1,339 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Willow Grove commands.
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 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 40 evictions over 7 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 3.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 18% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42091201608
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42091201608?
Census tract 42091201608 in Willow Grove scores 3.3/10 (Lower 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 42091201608?
Median gross rent is $1,339/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 79% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42091201608?
5.0% of residents in tract 42091201608 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,013.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42091201608?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 23th, minority 28th, housing 33th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42091201608?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 40 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42091201608 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.95% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42091201608 compare to Willow Grove overall?
Tract 42091201608 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Willow Grove at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Willow Grove eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 42091201608 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Willow Grove
Top eight tracts in Willow Grove ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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