1 census tracts · pop 3,981 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 8/10
· range 8–8
Wayne Junction is a one-tract neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA and houses 3,981 people. That produces an Eviction Risk Score of 8/10, High tier. The severe-burden share is 44%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
76% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, far above the Philadelphia rate of 31.4%. The strongest single driver of the headline number is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 44%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. Court records for this tract carry 194 eviction filings.
Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 7.5/10. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 10.8% of renter households. That places it #1 of 152 neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
Judgments average 6.1% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Only 24% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. The closest comparables inside the same city are Mantua and Franklinville.
One tract means one number: 8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
Risk score
8
High
1 tracts · population-weighted
Wayne Junction vs PhiladelphiaHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority98%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport43%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Wayne Junction
Aggregated across 1 validated constituent tract. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
194Total filings (sum)
9.30%Avg annual filing rate
10.8%Peak year (2016)
10.83%Latest filed (2016)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
189Total filings 2020-21
2.5Avg monthly observed
4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
0.51×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach).
Frequently asked
About Wayne Junction
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Wayne Junction?
Wayne Junction scores 8/10 (High tier) across 1 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Wayne Junction compare to Philadelphia overall?
Wayne Junction scores 1.4 points higher than Philadelphia overall (6.6/10). Renters spend 76% of income on rent vs 31% citywide. Average rent: $1,384 vs $1,397.
Q3
What is the average rent in Wayne Junction?
Average gross rent in Wayne Junction is $1,384/month (pop-weighted across 1 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 76% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Wayne Junction residents are renters?
24% of Wayne Junction households are renter-occupied (vs 48% in Philadelphia). The neighborhood has 3,981 residents.
Q5
Is Wayne Junction a high social-vulnerability area?
Wayne Junction sits in the 79th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (highly vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
How safe is Wayne Junction for landlords?
Wayne Junction carries a high-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (8/10). Pop-weighted across 1 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Philadelphia as a whole (6.6/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q7
What is the demographic breakdown of Wayne Junction?
Wayne Junction has 3,695 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (94.2%), Other / Multiracial (2.4%), White (non-Hispanic) (2.1%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
