New Fox Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Harrisburg
Tract 42043020400 · Dauphin County, PA · pop 1,623 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Here is how census tract 42043020400, in the New Fox Ridge area of Harrisburg eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 6.2/10 eviction-risk score (Elevated tier) across a population of 1,623. That is riskier than about 80% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 40% of renter households, a high level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $996 a month while the average household earns $53,852 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 64% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisburg and the region
Centroid at 40.2681, -76.8907 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Fox Ridge scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Fox Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 65%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%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
- 92%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 429Total filings over 6 yrs
- 9.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.7%Peak (2005)
- 76Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within New Fox Ridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in New Fox Ridge
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.7/10. 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 Harrisburg eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Dauphin County average of 5.9 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 44th 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.
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.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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