Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #5,413 of 84,120 nationally
Slabtown Eviction Risk: High , Portland
Tract 41051004901 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 3,416 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 41051004901 covers part of the Slabtown area of Portland, OR, and scores 8.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. 89% 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.
Risk score
8.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 54%
Owners 11%
Tract context
Occupied units2,289
Renter share88.8%
SVI overall0.67
Poverty rate14.9%
Median income$67,930
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
78
th percentile
High
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Portland and the region
Centroid at 45.5327, -122.6958 · click any tract to drill in
Why Slabtown scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
14.9% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,582 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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 Slabtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 67
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 100%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 5%Grade C
- 94%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.
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)
- 256Total filings 2020-21
- 3.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.31×Ratio to 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 Slabtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Slabtown
The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Against Multnomah County at 49.7%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.1 points above the Multnomah County average of 7.4.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7/10. Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,582, close to the Portland average. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $67,930.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 41051004901
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051004901?
Census tract 41051004901 in the Slabtown neighborhood scores 8.5/10 (High 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 41051004901?
Median gross rent is $1,582/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 41051004901?
14.9% of residents in tract 41051004901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,416.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 41051004901?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 67th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 17th, minority 49th, housing 100th.
Q5
Is tract 41051004901 considered part of Slabtown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051004901 fall within Slabtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 41051004901 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.31× 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 41051004901 compare to Portland overall?
Tract 41051004901 scores 8.5/10, higher than 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 41051004901 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 94% 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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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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Chinatown
9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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9.1
/ 10 · Very High
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