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Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally

Bear Creek Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Petersburg

Tract 12103028200 · Pinellas, FL · pop 2,200 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

12103028200 is a census tract in the Bear Creek area of Gulfport, FL. It scores 3.5/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,200 residents. 12% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Pinellas County average of 53.4%.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 8% Owners 91%
Tract context
Occupied units968
Renter share8.6%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate8.9%
Median income$85,594

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Bear Creek
Moderate
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In St. Petersburg
Very Low
Within county
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#157 of 273 tracts In Pinellas
Moderate
Within state
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#2,995 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Petersburg and the region

Centroid at 27.7570, -82.7171 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bear Creek scores 3.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from St. Petersburg
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
8.9% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,455 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Petersburg
8.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Petersburg
5.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Petersburg
7.6

How Bear Creek compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bear Creek risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.5This tracttract 0282003.5St. Petersburgparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 102Total filings over 18 yrs
  • 2.06%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.7%Peak (2016)
  • 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 12103028200
Filings dropped 60% over the past 18 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 17Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.81×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-01-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Tacoma, WA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Bear Creek. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bear Creek

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 102 filings here across 18 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.7% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #57,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Pinellas County average of 3.8 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 12103028200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12103028200?

Census tract 12103028200 in the Bear Creek neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (Lower 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 12103028200?

Median gross rent is $1,455/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 12% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12103028200?

8.9% of residents in tract 12103028200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,200.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12103028200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 80th, minority 30th, housing 21th.
Q5

Is tract 12103028200 considered part of Bear Creek?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 12103028200 fall within Bear Creek (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12103028200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 102 eviction filings across 18 validated years in tract 12103028200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.06% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 12103028200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.81× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Tacoma, WA), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 12103028200 compare to St. Petersburg overall?

Tract 12103028200 scores 3.5/10, right in line with the parent city of St. Petersburg at 3.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Petersburg eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 12103028200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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