Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Fairless Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42017105808 · Bucks County, PA · pop 3,865 · 88% of tract blocks fall in Fairless Hills
With a score of 5/10, tract 42017105808 in Fairless Hills, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,865 residents. Severe burden reaches 77%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units1,335
Renter share11.5%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate11.1%
Median income$93,489
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
National
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fairless Hills and the region
Centroid at 40.1840, -74.8476 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairless Hills scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fairless Hills
5.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.2
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
11.1% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,486 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fairless Hills
8.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fairless Hills
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fairless Hills
7.2
How Fairless Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
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)
- 211Total filings over 7 yrs
- 46.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 100.0%Peak (2005)
- 36Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 16% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fairless Hills
89% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Bucks County average of 41.8%. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.6/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Bucks County average of 4.0.
Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 211 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 100.0% of renter households.
At $1,486 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Fairless Hills commands. In a typical year about 46.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 42017105808
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42017105808?
Census tract 42017105808 in Fairless Hills scores 5/10 (Moderate 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 42017105808?
Median gross rent is $1,486/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 89% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42017105808?
11.1% of residents in tract 42017105808 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,865.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42017105808?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 59th, minority 20th, housing 59th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42017105808?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 211 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42017105808 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 46.65% of renter households, peaking at 100.0% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42017105808 compare to Fairless Hills overall?
Tract 42017105808 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Fairless Hills at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fairless Hills; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Fairless Hills
Top eight tracts in Fairless Hills ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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