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Neighborhood · Ranked #14,906 of 84,120 nationally

Grays Ferry Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101980904 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 1 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

42101980904 is a census tract in the Grays Ferry area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 6.6/10 for landlords. Population here is 1. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Risk score
6.6
Elevated
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Grays Ferry
Moderate
Within parent city
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#194 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Moderate
Within county
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Moderate
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#436 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9247, -75.2037 · click any tract to drill in

Why Grays Ferry scores 6.6

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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Grays Ferry compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Grays Ferry risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.6This tracttract 9809046.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 0Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Grays Ferry. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Grays Ferry

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

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. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Model confidence here is 45%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.

It tracks the Philadelphia County average of 6.6 closely.

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 42101980904

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101980904?

Census tract 42101980904 in the Grays Ferry neighborhood scores 6.6/10 (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

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101980904?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3

Is tract 42101980904 considered part of Grays Ferry?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101980904 fall within Grays Ferry (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q4

How does tract 42101980904 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101980904 scores 6.6/10, right in line with 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.
Q5

Was tract 42101980904 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. 10% 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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