Colonial Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland
Tract 41051001203 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 2,794 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 41051001203 covers part of the Colonial Heights area of Portland, OR, and scores 7.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Portland and the region
Centroid at 45.5136, -122.6421 · click any tract to drill in
Why Colonial Heights scores 7.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Colonial Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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
- 1%Grade C
- 74%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 51Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.81×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Colonial Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Colonial Heights
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.
That is riskier than roughly 90% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters. It tracks the Multnomah County average of 7.4 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,551, close to the Portland average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $88,024.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 41051001203
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