Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #17,132 of 84,120 nationally
Pennsport Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101002500 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,349 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42101002500 covers part of the Pennsport area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 6.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units2,063
Renter share44.0%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate20.5%
Median income$83,508
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9343, -75.1499 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pennsport scores 6.2
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
20.5% poverty · this tract
5.1
Supply constraint
$1,181 rent vs county FMR
1.6
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 Pennsport compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 65%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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
- 0%Grade C
- 98%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)
- 181Total filings over 4 yrs
- 5.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.0%Peak (2016)
- 64Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 73% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 190Total filings 2020-21
- 2.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×Ratio to 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 Pennsport. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pennsport
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.6/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
At $1,181 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 181 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 8.0% of renter households were served.
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 5.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $83,508, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101002500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101002500?
Census tract 42101002500 in the Pennsport neighborhood scores 6.2/10 (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
What is the average rent in tract 42101002500?
Median gross rent is $1,181/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101002500?
20.5% of residents in tract 42101002500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,349.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101002500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 91th, minority 60th, housing 72th.
Q5
Is tract 42101002500 considered part of Pennsport?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101002500 fall within Pennsport (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101002500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 181 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101002500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.64% of renter households, peaking at 8.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101002500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.76× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101002500 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101002500 scores 6.2/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 42101002500 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. 98% 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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