Midtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Erie
Tract 42049001300 · Erie County, PA · pop 1,805 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
How risky is Midtown in Erie for landlords? Census tract 42049001300 scores 6.6/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 88th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
55% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 46% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $801 a month while the average household earns $24,911 a year, roughly 39% of income at the averages. Renters make up 77% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Erie and the region
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Why Midtown scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Midtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 98%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 85%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)
- 418Total filings over 7 yrs
- 15.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.0%Peak (2001)
- 44Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Midtown
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Erie eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Erie County average of 5.6 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 99th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 418 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 15.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 17.0% of renter households in 2001.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 42049001300
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