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

Roseway Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

Tract 41051001703 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 3,979 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Census tract 41051001703 covers part of the Roseway area of Portland, OR, and scores 7.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,979 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 19% Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units1,847
Renter share42.6%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$77,515

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 10 tracts In Roseway
Elevated
Within parent city
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#75 of 168 tracts In Portland
Elevated
Within county
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#79 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 45.5305, -122.5872 · click any tract to drill in

Why Roseway 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
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,619 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Roseway compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Roseway risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.8This tracttract 0017037.7Portlandparent city7.4Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 43

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 160Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.90×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 Roseway. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Roseway

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Multnomah County average of 49.7%. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.8/10 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 least pressured.

It tracks the Multnomah County average of 7.4 closely. Average gross rent is $1,619, close to the Portland average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $77,515.

43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 41051001703

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051001703?

Census tract 41051001703 in the Roseway 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 41051001703?

Median gross rent is $1,619/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051001703?

10.5% of residents in tract 41051001703 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,979.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051001703?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 48th, minority 49th, housing 26th.
Q5

Is tract 41051001703 considered part of Roseway?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051001703 fall within Roseway (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 41051001703 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.90× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Pittsburgh, PA), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 41051001703 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051001703 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.
Q8

Was tract 41051001703 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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