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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Olde Kensington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101014201 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,295 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 42101014201 sits in the Olde Kensington area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. Population here is 3,295. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 15% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 49% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,665
Renter share58.1%
SVI overall0.02
Poverty rate2.8%
Median income$149,475

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Olde Kensington
Very High
Within parent city
3 th percentile
Rank, 3rd percentileLowHigh
#394 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Very Low
Within county
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#374 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Very Low
Within state
69 th percentile
Rank, 69th percentileLowHigh
#1,074 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9677, -75.1432 · click any tract to drill in

Why Olde Kensington scores 5.2

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
2.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,143 rent vs county FMR
6.9
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 Olde Kensington compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Olde Kensington risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 0142016.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 2

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)

  • 71Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.93×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 Olde Kensington. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Olde Kensington

Average gross rent is $2,143, 53% above the Philadelphia average. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. The voucher gap is 18.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.1/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $149,475, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101014201

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101014201?

Census tract 42101014201 in the Olde Kensington neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 42101014201?

Median gross rent is $2,143/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 15% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101014201?

2.8% of residents in tract 42101014201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,295.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101014201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 2th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 0th, minority 36th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 42101014201 considered part of Olde Kensington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101014201 fall within Olde Kensington (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 42101014201 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 42101014201 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101014201 scores 5.2/10, lower 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.
Q8

Was tract 42101014201 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. 100% 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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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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