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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Viscose Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%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
- 26%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)
- 710Total filings over 7 yrs
- 19.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.5%Peak (2006)
- 130Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Viscose Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
About tract 42045405400
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