Within neighborhood
25
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Nicetown Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101020500 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,143 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 8/10, tract 42101020500 in the Nicetown area of Philadelphia, PA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 45%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units1,663
Renter share65.4%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate27.8%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
86
th percentile
High
Within county
75
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0159, -75.1644 · click any tract to drill in
Why Nicetown scores 8
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
27.8% poverty · this tract
7.0
Supply constraint
$1,265 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 Nicetown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 73%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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
- 11%Grade C
- 41%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)
- 213Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.1%Peak (2016)
- 66Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 69% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 189Total filings 2020-21
- 2.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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 Nicetown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Nicetown
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.
The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Court records carry 213 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
At $1,265 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. Filings peaked in 2016 at 9.1% of renter households. 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 7.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 42101020500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101020500?
Census tract 42101020500 in the Nicetown neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 42101020500?
Median gross rent is $1,265/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101020500?
27.8% of residents in tract 42101020500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,143.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101020500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 73th, minority 96th, housing 80th.
Q5
Is tract 42101020500 considered part of Nicetown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101020500 fall within Nicetown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101020500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 213 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101020500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.70% of renter households, peaking at 9.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101020500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× 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 42101020500 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101020500 scores 8/10, 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 42101020500 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. 41% 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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