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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

Sharswood Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia

Tract 42101015200 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 5,975 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 42101015200 sits in the Sharswood area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. It is home to 5,975 residents. Cost burden runs 70% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 48% Stable renters 20% Owners 32%
Tract context
Occupied units2,341
Renter share68.3%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate44.2%
Median income$42,256

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Sharswood
Moderate
Within parent city
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#65 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
High
Within county
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#36 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9855, -75.1700 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sharswood scores 8

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
44.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$961 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Sharswood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sharswood risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.0This tracttract 0152006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 1,359Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 26.74%Avg annual filing rate
  • 29.2%Peak (2010)
  • 288Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101015200
Filings dropped 28% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 544Total filings 2020-21
  • 7.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 18.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.39×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 Sharswood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sharswood

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Average gross rent is $961, 31% below the Philadelphia average.

68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

The filing record is not thin: 1,359 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2010, when 29.2% 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 26.7% of renter households face a filing.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 42101015200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101015200?

Census tract 42101015200 in the Sharswood neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 42101015200?

Median gross rent is $961/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 70% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101015200?

44.2% of residents in tract 42101015200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,975.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101015200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 86th, minority 94th, housing 74th.
Q5

Is tract 42101015200 considered part of Sharswood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101015200 fall within Sharswood (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101015200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,359 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101015200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 26.74% of renter households, peaking at 29.2% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101015200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.39× 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 42101015200 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101015200 scores 8/10, higher 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 42101015200 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. 96% 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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