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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Viscose Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chester

Tract 42045405400 · Delaware County, PA · pop 2,373 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

42045405400 is a census tract in the Viscose Village area of Chester, PA. It scores 7.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,373 residents. Against the Delaware County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.1 points.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38% Stable renters 25% Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units1,160
Renter share62.3%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate33.7%
Median income$37,256

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 6 tracts In Viscose Village
High
Within parent city
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 12 tracts In Chester
Moderate
Within county
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#14 of 152 tracts In Delaware County
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#116 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Chester and the region

Centroid at 39.8374, -75.4005 · click any tract to drill in

Why Viscose Village scores 7.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Chester
6.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
33.7% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$1,044 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Chester
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Chester
9.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Chester
8.8

How Viscose Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Viscose Village risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.8This tracttract 4054006.4Chesterparent city4.7Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 710Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 19.75%Avg annual filing rate
  • 16.5%Peak (2006)
  • 130Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42045405400
Filings climbed 113% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Viscose Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Viscose Village

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $37,256, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10. 60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Delaware County average of 50.9%.

Court records carry 710 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 16.5% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 19.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 42045405400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42045405400?

Census tract 42045405400 in the Viscose Village neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 42045405400?

Median gross rent is $1,044/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42045405400?

33.7% of residents in tract 42045405400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,373.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42045405400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 81th, minority 90th, housing 29th.
Q5

Is tract 42045405400 considered part of Viscose Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42045405400 fall within Viscose Village (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42045405400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 710 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42045405400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 19.75% of renter households, peaking at 16.5% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42045405400 compare to Chester overall?

Tract 42045405400 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Chester at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Chester eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42045405400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Chester

Top eight tracts in Chester ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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