Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally
Southwest Germantown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101024400 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,210 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 42101024400 sits in the Southwest Germantown area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.9/10. It is home to 3,210 residents. Severe burden reaches 50%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,202
Renter share49.6%
SVI overall0.56
Poverty rate32.8%
Median income$53,333
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0248, -75.1639 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southwest Germantown scores 7.9
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
32.8% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
$967 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 Southwest Germantown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 66%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 99%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 304Total filings over 4 yrs
- 13.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.0%Peak (2011)
- 62Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 158Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.43×Ratio to 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 Southwest Germantown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Southwest Germantown
69% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Average gross rent is $967, 31% below the Philadelphia average. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
It sits 1.3 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 304 filings here across 4 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 17.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 13.7% of renter households face a filing.
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 42101024400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101024400?
Census tract 42101024400 in the Southwest Germantown neighborhood scores 7.9/10 (Elevated 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 42101024400?
Median gross rent is $967/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101024400?
32.8% of residents in tract 42101024400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,210.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101024400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 56th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 66th, minority 92th, housing 40th.
Q5
Is tract 42101024400 considered part of Southwest Germantown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101024400 fall within Southwest Germantown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101024400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 304 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101024400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.74% of renter households, peaking at 17.0% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101024400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.43× 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 42101024400 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101024400 scores 7.9/10, 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 42101024400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 1% 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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