Bellevue Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Harrisburg
Tract 42043021700 · Dauphin County, PA · pop 6,330 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
42043021700 is a census tract in the Bellevue Park area of Harrisburg, PA. It scores 6.6/10 for landlords. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Harrisburg and the region
Centroid at 40.2654, -76.8473 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bellevue Park scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bellevue Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 78%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%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.
- 22%Grade A
- 44%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)
- 853Total filings over 6 yrs
- 16.29%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.5%Peak (2003)
- 126Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bellevue Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Bellevue Park
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. Against the Dauphin County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.
50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Dauphin County average of 39.0%. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.2/10.
The filing record is not thin: 853 evictions over 6 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2003 at 20.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Harrisburg. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 16.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.5/10.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
Average gross rent is $990, close to the Harrisburg average.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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