Wharton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.2 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 132 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 5.3% of renter households. 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. In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.