Upper Roxborough Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

71% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.1 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. The filing record is not thin: 424 evictions over 4 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,558, 12% above the Philadelphia average.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 8.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 6.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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