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Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Rhawnhurst Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101033702 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,489 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Census tract 42101033702 covers part of the Rhawnhurst area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,489. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 26% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 27% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,816
Renter share36.0%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate10.8%
Median income$67,557

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Rhawnhurst
Very Low
Within parent city
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#285 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Low
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#279 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Low
Within state
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#838 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0708, -75.0578 · click any tract to drill in

Why Rhawnhurst scores 5.6

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
10.8% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,168 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Rhawnhurst compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Rhawnhurst risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 0337026.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 43

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)

  • 102Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 5.45%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.3%Peak (2011)
  • 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101033702
Filings dropped 36% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 85Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.71×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 Rhawnhurst. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Rhawnhurst

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.

At $1,168 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The filing record is not thin: 102 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2011, when 6.3% of renter households were served.

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 5.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

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 42101033702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101033702?

Census tract 42101033702 in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 42101033702?

Median gross rent is $1,168/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101033702?

10.8% of residents in tract 42101033702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,489.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101033702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 83th, minority 61th, housing 40th.
Q5

Is tract 42101033702 considered part of Rhawnhurst?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101033702 fall within Rhawnhurst (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101033702?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 102 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101033702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.45% of renter households, peaking at 6.3% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101033702 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× 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 42101033702 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101033702 scores 5.6/10, 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 42101033702 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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