Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
West Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101016400 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,019 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 42101016400 covers part of the West Kensington area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,019. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units1,649
Renter share69.6%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate49.6%
Median income$24,497
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
92
th percentile
Very High
Within county
92
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9896, -75.1432 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Kensington scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
49.6% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$736 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 West Kensington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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.
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)
- 414Total filings over 4 yrs
- 10.80%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.8%Peak (2012)
- 68Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 207Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.51×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Kensington. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West Kensington
At $736 a month, rents run 47% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The poverty rate is 50%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Cost burden runs 36% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $24,497, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 414 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.8% 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 10.8% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101016400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101016400?
Census tract 42101016400 in the West Kensington neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 42101016400?
Median gross rent is $736/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101016400?
49.6% of residents in tract 42101016400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,019.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101016400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 99th, minority 99th, housing 76th.
Q5
Is tract 42101016400 considered part of West Kensington?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101016400 fall within West Kensington (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101016400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 414 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101016400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.80% of renter households, peaking at 16.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101016400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.51× 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 42101016400 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101016400 scores 8/10, higher 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 42101016400 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. 100% 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.
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