Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally
Bala Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101012000 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 1,917 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.9/10, tract 42101012000 in the Bala area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,917. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.
Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units683
Renter share61.2%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate12.0%
Median income$61,483
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
39
th percentile
Low
Within county
38
th percentile
Low
Within state
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9955, -75.2297 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bala scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Philadelphia
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
12.0% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,326 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Philadelphia
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Philadelphia
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Philadelphia
7.5
How Bala compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 3%Grade A
- 91%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)
- 290Total filings over 4 yrs
- 20.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.1%Peak (2010)
- 52Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 46% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 241Total filings 2020-21
- 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.82×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bala
Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 290 filings here across 4 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 26.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 20.1% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.4/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101012000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101012000?
Census tract 42101012000 in the Bala neighborhood scores 5.9/10 (Moderate 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 42101012000?
Median gross rent is $1,326/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101012000?
12.0% of residents in tract 42101012000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,917.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101012000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 25th, minority 80th, housing 100th.
Q5
Is tract 42101012000 considered part of Bala?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101012000 fall within Bala (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101012000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 290 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101012000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.06% of renter households, peaking at 26.1% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101012000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.82× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101012000 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101012000 scores 5.9/10, lower than the parent city of Philadelphia at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Philadelphia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 42101012000 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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