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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Spring Garden Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101013402 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,929 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi

Tract 42101013402 sits in the Spring Garden area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. 32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 51% Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units1,792
Renter share75.3%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate15.1%
Median income$92,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Spring Garden
Very High
Within parent city
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#301 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Low
Within county
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#300 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Low
Within state
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#957 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9654, -75.1690 · click any tract to drill in

Why Spring Garden scores 5.4

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
15.1% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$1,732 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 / state5.4This tracttract 0134026.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

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)

  • 76Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 1.85%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.4%Peak (2010)
  • 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101013402
Filings dropped 52% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 112Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.75×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. 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

75% 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. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. At $1,732 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

Court records carry 76 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Filings peaked in 2010 at 2.4% of renter households. 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 42101013402

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101013402?

Census tract 42101013402 in the Spring Garden neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 42101013402?

Median gross rent is $1,732/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101013402?

15.1% of residents in tract 42101013402 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,929.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101013402?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 2th, minority 44th, housing 48th.
Q5

Is tract 42101013402 considered part of Spring Garden?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101013402 fall within Spring Garden (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101013402?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 76 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101013402 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.85% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101013402 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.75× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 42101013402 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101013402 scores 5.4/10, 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 42101013402 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. 99% 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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