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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Spring Garden Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101013300 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,500 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 5.2/10, tract 42101013300 in the Spring Garden area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. about a quarter of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 60% Owners 19%
Tract context
Occupied units2,148
Renter share80.5%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate13.9%
Median income$98,373

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Spring Garden
Low
Within parent city
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#374 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Very Low
Within county
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#377 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Very Low
Within state
69 th percentile
Rank, 69th percentileLowHigh
#1,074 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9666, -75.1629 · click any tract to drill in

Why Spring Garden scores 5.2

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
13.9% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$1,722 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Spring Garden compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Spring Garden risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 0133006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 31

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)

  • 223Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 4.63%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.4%Peak (2012)
  • 51Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101013300
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 181Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.54×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 Spring Garden. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Spring Garden

80% 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. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, 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.

Average gross rent is $1,722, 23% above the Philadelphia average. It sits 1.4 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 223 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.4% of renter households were served.

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 4.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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 42101013300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101013300?

Census tract 42101013300 in the Spring Garden 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 42101013300?

Median gross rent is $1,722/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101013300?

13.9% of residents in tract 42101013300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,500.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101013300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 1th, minority 65th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 42101013300 considered part of Spring Garden?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101013300 fall within Spring Garden (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101013300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 223 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101013300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.63% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101013300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.54× 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 42101013300 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101013300 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 42101013300 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. 83% 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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