University City Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101036902 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 6,267 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
42101036902 is a census tract in the University City area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 8/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,267. Severe burden reaches 41%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9523, -75.1890 · click any tract to drill in
Why University City scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow University City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
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
- 15%Grade C
- 21%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 87Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within University City. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in University City
Annualized rent equals 113% of average household income of $31,635, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. At $2,979 a month, rents run 113% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
The poverty rate is 47%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, supply constraint reads 10/10.
The voucher gap is 65.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Cost burden runs 57% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
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. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.
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.
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