Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Wissahickon Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101021700 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 5,781 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 42101021700 in the Wissahickon Hills area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,781. 7% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units2,718
Renter share29.7%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate8.3%
Median income$86,222
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
12
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
4
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0450, -75.2239 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wissahickon Hills scores 5.2
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
8.3% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,665 rent vs county FMR
4.2
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 Wissahickon Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 57%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 99%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 71Total filings over 4 yrs
- 3.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2011)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 40% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 122Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.48×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wissahickon Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wissahickon Hills
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. At $1,665 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands. Court records carry 71 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 5.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.4/10.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101021700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101021700?
Census tract 42101021700 in the Wissahickon Hills neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (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 42101021700?
Median gross rent is $1,665/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 7% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101021700?
8.3% of residents in tract 42101021700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,781.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101021700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 57th, minority 33th, housing 28th.
Q5
Is tract 42101021700 considered part of Wissahickon Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101021700 fall within Wissahickon Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101021700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 71 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101021700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.68% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101021700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.48× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101021700 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101021700 scores 5.2/10, 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 42101021700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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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