Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Wharton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101002802 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 5,720 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 42101002802 sits in the Wharton area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Population here is 5,720. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units2,432
Renter share34.5%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate18.5%
Median income$94,427
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9288, -75.1614 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wharton scores 5.7
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
18.5% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,485 rent vs county FMR
3.2
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 Wharton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 36%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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)
- 51Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.4%Peak (2011)
- 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 25Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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 Wharton. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wharton
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.
The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 51 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
It sits 0.9 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened. Filings peaked in 2011 at 2.4% 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101002802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101002802?
Census tract 42101002802 in the Wharton neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 42101002802?
Median gross rent is $1,485/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101002802?
18.5% of residents in tract 42101002802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,720.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101002802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 36th, minority 57th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 42101002802 considered part of Wharton?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101002802 fall within Wharton (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101002802?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101002802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.63% of renter households, peaking at 2.4% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101002802 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.49× 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 42101002802 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101002802 scores 5.7/10, lower 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 42101002802 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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