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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Colonial Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

Tract 41051000902 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 5,324 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

41051000902 is a census tract in the Colonial Heights area of Portland, OR. It scores 7.8/10 for landlords. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 33% Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units2,200
Renter share68.1%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate12.8%
Median income$88,438

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Colonial Heights
Elevated
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#72 of 168 tracts In Portland
Elevated
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#81 of 197 tracts In Multnomah County
Elevated
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#111 of 994 tracts In Oregon
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Portland and the region

Centroid at 45.4938, -122.6312 · click any tract to drill in

Why Colonial Heights scores 7.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Portland
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
Oregon legislature & governorship
7.2
Economic stress
12.8% poverty · this tract
3.2
Supply constraint
$1,606 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Portland
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Portland
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Portland
8.5

How Colonial Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Colonial Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.8This tracttract 0009027.7Portlandparent city7.4Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 72

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)

  • 925Total filings over 16 yrs
  • 4.35%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.3%Peak (2005)
  • 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 41051000902
Filings dropped 72% over the past 16 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 332Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.59×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Colonial Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Colonial Heights

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 925 filings here across 16 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 8.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Portland. 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. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 41051000902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051000902?

Census tract 41051000902 in the Colonial Heights neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated 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 41051000902?

Median gross rent is $1,606/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051000902?

12.8% of residents in tract 41051000902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,324.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051000902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 30th, minority 52th, housing 85th.
Q5

Is tract 41051000902 considered part of Colonial Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051000902 fall within Colonial Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 41051000902?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 925 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 41051000902 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.35% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 41051000902 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.59× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Pittsburgh, PA), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 41051000902 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051000902 scores 7.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Portland at 7.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Portland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 41051000902 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Portland ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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