Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Wister Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101024500 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,904 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42101024500 covers part of the Wister area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,904. 46% 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
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units1,721
Renter share61.3%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate45.2%
Median income$21,117
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0333, -75.1620 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wister 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
45.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$779 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 Wister compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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
- 49%Grade C
- 51%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)
- 436Total filings over 4 yrs
- 11.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.4%Peak (2012)
- 98Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 306Total filings 2020-21
- 4.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.41×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.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wister
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. At $779 a month, rents run 44% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $21,117, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Running hot, 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.
Cost burden runs 56% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. Court records carry 436 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 14.4% of renter households were served. 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 11.9% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101024500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101024500?
Census tract 42101024500 in the Wister 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 42101024500?
Median gross rent is $779/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101024500?
45.2% of residents in tract 42101024500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,904.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101024500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 97th, minority 95th, housing 83th.
Q5
Is tract 42101024500 considered part of Wister?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101024500 fall within Wister (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101024500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 436 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101024500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.92% of renter households, peaking at 14.4% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101024500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.41× 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 42101024500 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101024500 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 42101024500 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. 51% 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.
Sibling tracts
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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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