Northwood Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101029300 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,563 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
42101029300 is a census tract in the Northwood area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 8/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,563. Severe burden reaches 52%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0141, -75.0920 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northwood scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Northwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
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
- 1%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 75%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)
- 255Total filings over 4 yrs
- 14.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 21.5%Peak (2012)
- 66Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 181Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.60×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 Northwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Northwood
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.9/10. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Set annual rent against average income of $34,076 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.
At $1,121 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The filing record is not thin: 255 evictions over 4 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 21.5% of renter households were served. 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. In a typical year about 14.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10.
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.
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