Brandywine at Thornbury Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cheyney University
Tract 42029303000 · Chester County, PA · pop 3,181 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 42029303000 covers part of the Brandywine at Thornbury area of Cheyney University, PA, and scores 4.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.2/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Cheyney University and the region
Centroid at 39.9240, -75.5575 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brandywine at Thornbury scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brandywine at Thornbury compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 32%Racial/ethnic minority
- 14%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)
- 60Total filings over 6 yrs
- 3.19%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.6%Peak (2006)
- 24Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Brandywine at Thornbury. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Brandywine at Thornbury
Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The voucher gap is 28.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, supply constraint reads 7.9/10.
35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Chester County average of 41.5%. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 60 evictions over 6 years of observation.
Average gross rent is $2,322, 12% above the Cheyney University average. Filings peaked in 2006 at 7.6% of renter households.
In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $177,708, annual rent is just 16%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 42029303000
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