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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally

Elmwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101006100 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,919 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 42101006100 covers part of the Elmwood Park area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 7.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,919. Severe burden reaches 72%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 5% Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,217
Renter share20.1%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate21.3%
Median income$45,521

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Elmwood Park
Moderate
Within parent city
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#149 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#148 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#339 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9150, -75.2288 · click any tract to drill in

Why Elmwood Park scores 7.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
21.3% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$1,289 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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.
Elmwood Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.2This tracttract 0061006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 82

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 111Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 8.90%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.5%Peak (2011)
  • 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101006100
Filings dropped 29% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 74Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Elmwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Elmwood Park

Cost burden runs roughly three in four here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $45,521, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 111 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points. The worst year on record was 2011, when 9.5% 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 8.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.6 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 42101006100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101006100?

Census tract 42101006100 in the Elmwood Park neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (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 42101006100?

Median gross rent is $1,289/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 77% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101006100?

21.3% of residents in tract 42101006100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,919.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101006100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 92th, minority 93th, housing 38th.
Q5

Is tract 42101006100 considered part of Elmwood Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101006100 fall within Elmwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101006100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 111 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101006100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.90% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101006100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.73× 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 42101006100 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101006100 scores 7.2/10, 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 42101006100 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. 76% 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

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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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