Mocks Bottom Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland
Tract 41051003903 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 3,231 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 41051003903 covers part of the Mocks Bottom area of Portland, OR, and scores 7.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,231 residents. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Multnomah County average of 49.7%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Portland and the region
Centroid at 45.5852, -122.7092 · click any tract to drill in
Why Mocks Bottom scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Mocks Bottom compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 16%Grade B
- 21%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 63Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.66×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Mocks Bottom. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Mocks Bottom
The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. At $1,282 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Portland commands. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 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.
Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $118,627, annual rent is just 13%.
Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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