Somerville Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia

around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%. The dominant input is economic stress at 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 235 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2010 at 7.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 6.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

37% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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