Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally
Chinatown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101037600 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,304 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.6/10, tract 42101037600 in the Chinatown area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,304 residents. At $1,986 a month, rents run 42% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units1,790
Renter share70.7%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate18.8%
Median income$101,742
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
30
th percentile
Low
Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
76
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9600, -75.1553 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chinatown scores 5.6
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
18.8% poverty · this tract
4.7
Supply constraint
$1,986 rent vs county FMR
6.0
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 Chinatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 14%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)
- 99Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2010)
- 23Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 32% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 256Total filings 2020-21
- 3.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.94×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chinatown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Chinatown
Cost burden runs 38% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.0 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. The filing record is not thin: 99 evictions over 4 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 4.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101037600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101037600?
Census tract 42101037600 in the Chinatown neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 42101037600?
Median gross rent is $1,986/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101037600?
18.8% of residents in tract 42101037600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,304.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101037600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 7th, minority 67th, housing 98th.
Q5
Is tract 42101037600 considered part of Chinatown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101037600 fall within Chinatown (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101037600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 99 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101037600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.92% of renter households, peaking at 4.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101037600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.94× 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 42101037600 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101037600 scores 5.6/10, 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 42101037600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 14% 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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