Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Rittenhouse Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101001204 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,134 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 42101001204 sits in the Rittenhouse Square area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. It is home to 3,134 residents. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 41%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units2,048
Renter share67.7%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate12.1%
Median income$94,056
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
13
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
14
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9457, -75.1684 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rittenhouse Square scores 5.2
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
12.1% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,623 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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 Rittenhouse Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 32%Racial/ethnic minority
- 88%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
- 33%Grade C
- 58%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 65Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×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 Rittenhouse Square. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rittenhouse Square
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.
This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
It sits 1.4 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. At $1,623 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
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. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $94,056.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101001204
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101001204?
Census tract 42101001204 in the Rittenhouse Square 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 42101001204?
Median gross rent is $1,623/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101001204?
12.1% of residents in tract 42101001204 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,134.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101001204?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 3th, minority 32th, housing 88th.
Q5
Is tract 42101001204 considered part of Rittenhouse Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101001204 fall within Rittenhouse Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 42101001204 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× 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 42101001204 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101001204 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 42101001204 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. 58% 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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