Wharton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101002701 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,821 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 42101002701 in the Wharton area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,821. Cost burden runs 39% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9286, -75.1537 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wharton scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wharton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 45
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 48%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
- 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.
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)
- 132Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.3%Peak (2012)
- 32Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 60Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.46×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 Wharton. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Wharton
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.
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