Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally
Elmwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101006000 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 6,440 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
42101006000 is a census tract in the Elmwood Park area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 7.6/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,440. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units2,589
Renter share41.0%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate24.1%
Median income$44,199
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9116, -75.2382 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elmwood Park scores 7.6
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
24.1% poverty · this tract
6.0
Supply constraint
$1,166 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Elmwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%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
- 12%Grade C
- 87%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)
- 249Total filings over 4 yrs
- 8.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.9%Peak (2016)
- 76Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 29% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 161Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.40×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Elmwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Elmwood Park
The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
Average gross rent is $1,166, 17% below the Philadelphia average. The filing record is not thin: 249 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.9% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 8.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101006000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101006000?
Census tract 42101006000 in the Elmwood Park neighborhood scores 7.6/10 (Elevated 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 42101006000?
Median gross rent is $1,166/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101006000?
24.1% of residents in tract 42101006000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,440.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101006000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 96th, minority 91th, housing 57th.
Q5
Is tract 42101006000 considered part of Elmwood Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101006000 fall within Elmwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101006000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 249 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101006000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.00% of renter households, peaking at 9.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101006000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.40× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101006000 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101006000 scores 7.6/10, higher 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 42101006000 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. 87% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Philadelphia
Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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