Willow Grove Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 42091201608 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 5,013 · 17% of tract blocks fall in Willow Grove
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 42091201608 (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) comes in at 5.7/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 63rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
79% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 36% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,339 a month while the average household earns $139,526 a year, roughly 12% of income at the averages. About 18% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Willow Grove and the region
Centroid at 40.1225, -75.1073 · click any tract to drill in
Why Willow Grove scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Willow Grove compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.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
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.
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)
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What drives eviction risk in Willow Grove
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Willow Grove eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Montgomery County average of 5.4 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 22nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 40 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 1.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 3.0% of renter households in 2006.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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