Moxham Eviction Risk: Moderate , Johnstown
Tract 42021000600 · Cambria County, PA · pop 1,710 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Here is how census tract 42021000600, in the Moxham area of Johnstown eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 5.3/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 1,710. It lands near the 49th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
37% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $902 monthly, set against $36,354 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. Renters make up 38% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Johnstown and the region
Centroid at 40.2961, -78.9124 · click any tract to drill in
Why Moxham scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Moxham compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 33%Grade B
- 26%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 29Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.24%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2006)
- 29Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Moxham. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Moxham
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 8.8/10. 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 Johnstown eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Cambria County average of 4.9 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. 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 B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 56th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42021000600
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