Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Society Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101001001 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,717 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42101001001 covers part of the Society Hill area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,717. At $2,262 a month, rents run 62% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,741
Renter share46.6%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate7.1%
Median income$114,205
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
21
th percentile
Low
Within county
12
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9457, -75.1516 · click any tract to drill in
Why Society Hill 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
7.1% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$2,262 rent vs county FMR
7.6
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 Society Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 14%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%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
- 65%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)
- 18Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.4%Peak (2016)
- 6Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 50% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 31Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.15×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Society Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Society Hill
35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.8/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The voucher gap is 25.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Court records carry 18 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 1.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Philadelphia. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 0.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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 42101001001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101001001?
Census tract 42101001001 in the Society Hill 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 42101001001?
Median gross rent is $2,262/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101001001?
7.1% of residents in tract 42101001001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,717.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101001001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 4th, minority 14th, housing 53th.
Q5
Is tract 42101001001 considered part of Society Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101001001 fall within Society Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101001001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 18 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101001001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.87% of renter households, peaking at 1.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101001001 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.15× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101001001 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101001001 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.
Q9
Was tract 42101001001 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. 65% 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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