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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Olney Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101027200 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,782 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 42101027200 sits in the Olney area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. The severe-burden share is 36%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 15% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,909
Renter share34.0%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$64,102

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 5 tracts In Olney
Very Low
Within parent city
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#269 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Low
Within county
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#268 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Low
Within state
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#805 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0472, -75.1181 · click any tract to drill in

Why Olney scores 5.7

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
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,436 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Olney compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Olney risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.7This tracttract 0272006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 80

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 995Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 33.09%Avg annual filing rate
  • 55.2%Peak (2016)
  • 396Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101027200
Filings climbed 146% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 628Total filings 2020-21
  • 8.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 26.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.31×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 Olney. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Olney

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Cost burden runs 57% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 995 filings here across 4 tracked years.

It sits 0.9 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Filings peaked in 2016 at 55.2% 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 33.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101027200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101027200?

Census tract 42101027200 in the Olney neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 42101027200?

Median gross rent is $1,436/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101027200?

11.2% of residents in tract 42101027200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,782.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101027200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 91th, minority 97th, housing 49th.
Q5

Is tract 42101027200 considered part of Olney?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101027200 fall within Olney (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101027200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 995 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101027200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 33.09% of renter households, peaking at 55.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101027200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.31× 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 42101027200 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101027200 scores 5.7/10, 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.
Q9

Was tract 42101027200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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

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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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