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Powellhurst Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

Tract 41051008302 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 5,231 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Census tract 41051008302 belongs to the Powellhurst neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It is home to 5,231 residents and scores 7.3/10, an elevated reading for landlords. That is riskier than about 97% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 62% of renter households, a severe level, and 45% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,469 a month against an average household income of $72,619 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 42% of occupied homes.

Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26% Stable renters 16% Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units1,602
Renter share42.4%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate20.3%
Median income$72,619

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 8 tracts In Powellhurst
Moderate
Within parent city
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#32 of 168 tracts In Portland
High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#31 of 197 tracts In Multnomah County
High
Within state
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#93 of 994 tracts In Oregon
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Portland and the region

Centroid at 45.4970, -122.5568 · click any tract to drill in

Why Powellhurst scores 6.4

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
20.3% poverty · this tract
5.1
Supply constraint
$1,469 rent vs county FMR
2.4
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 Powellhurst compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Powellhurst risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.46.4This tracttract 008302Portland: 8.18.1Portlandparent cityCounty: 5.35.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.74.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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)

  • 703Total filings over 16 yrs
  • 7.93%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.8%Peak (2004)
  • 51Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 410510083022000: 36 filings (7.09/100 renter HHs)2001: 38 filings (7.48/100 renter HHs)2002: 32 filings (6.30/100 renter HHs)2003: 40 filings (7.87/100 renter HHs)2004: 55 filings (10.83/100 renter HHs)2005: 47 filings (8.47/100 renter HHs)2006: 53 filings (9.55/100 renter HHs)2007: 46 filings (8.29/100 renter HHs)2008: 37 filings (6.67/100 renter HHs)2009: 49 filings (8.83/100 renter HHs)2010: 50 filings (7.91/100 renter HHs)2012: 53 filings (9.38/100 renter HHs)2013: 51 filings (9.03/100 renter HHs)2014: 30 filings (5.31/100 renter HHs)2015: 35 filings (6.19/100 renter HHs)2016: 51 filings (7.73/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 42% over the past 16 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 259Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.32×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2020-04-01: 1 filings (0.33× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-08-01: 4 filings (0.80× baseline)2021-09-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2021-10-01: 3 filings (3.00× baseline)2021-11-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2022-01-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-04-01: 5 filings (1.67× baseline)2022-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2022-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-10-01: 5 filings (5.00× baseline)2022-11-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-01-01: 8 filings (4.00× baseline)2023-02-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 10 filings (2.50× baseline)2023-04-01: 1 filings (0.33× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-07-01: 5 filings (1.67× baseline)2023-08-01: 1 filings (0.20× baseline)2023-09-01: 5 filings (1.25× baseline)2023-10-01: 13 filings (13.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 3 filings (3.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 5 filings (1.25× baseline)2024-01-01: 4 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2024-03-01: 10 filings (2.50× baseline)2024-04-01: 6 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-05-01: 5 filings (2.50× baseline)2024-06-01: 6 filings (3.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 9 filings (3.00× baseline)2024-08-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-09-01: 11 filings (2.75× baseline)2024-10-01: 6 filings (6.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 4 filings (4.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2025-01-01: 9 filings (4.50× baseline)2025-02-01: 11 filings (110.00× baseline)2025-03-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2025-04-01: 7 filings (2.33× baseline)2025-05-01: 5 filings (2.50× baseline)2025-06-01: 6 filings (3.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 5 filings (1.67× baseline)2025-08-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2025-09-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2025-10-01: 3 filings (3.00× baseline)2025-11-01: 4 filings (4.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 11 filings (2.75× baseline)2026-01-01: 6 filings (3.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 7 filings (1.75× baseline)2026-04-01: 6 filings (2.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× 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 Powellhurst. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Powellhurst

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Portland eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Multnomah County average of 6.9 and above the Oregon statewide average of 6.0. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

The tract is racially mixed and ranks around the 95th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 41051008302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41051008302?

Census tract 41051008302 in the Powellhurst neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 41051008302?

Median gross rent is $1,469/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41051008302?

20.3% of residents in tract 41051008302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,231.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41051008302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 95th, minority 63th, housing 99th.
Q5

Is tract 41051008302 considered part of Powellhurst?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41051008302 fall within Powellhurst (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 41051008302?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 703 eviction filings across 16 validated years in tract 41051008302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.93% of renter households, peaking at 10.8% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 41051008302 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.32× 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 41051008302 compare to Portland overall?

Tract 41051008302 scores 6.4/10, lower than the parent city of Portland at 8.1/10. 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 41051008302 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

Highest-risk tracts in Portland

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

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