Phoenixville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42029300900 · Chester County, PA · pop 2,549
Census tract 42029300900 covers part of Phoenixville, PA, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,549. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Phoenixville and the region
Centroid at 40.1225, -75.5191 · click any tract to drill in
Why Phoenixville scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Phoenixville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 21
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 29%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 12%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
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)
- 59Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.4%Peak (2005)
- 14Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Phoenixville
54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Chester County average of 41.5%. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10.
At $1,406 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Phoenixville commands. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10.
Court records carry 59 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 8.4% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $110,184, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Chester County average of 4.4 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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