Feltonville Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101028800 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,662 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
42101028800 is a census tract in the Feltonville area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 7.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,662 residents. 51% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0222, -75.1241 · click any tract to drill in
Why Feltonville scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Feltonville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 99%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)
- 175Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.6%Peak (2016)
- 59Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 132Total filings 2020-21
- 1.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.47×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Feltonville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Feltonville
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.4/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $1,155 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The filing record is not thin: 175 evictions over 4 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 9.6% of renter households. 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 7.1% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $57,996.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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