Ross Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lancaster
Tract 42071000300 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 4,722 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
The Moderate-tier score of 5.7/10 for census tract 42071000300 reflects conditions in the Ross neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. On the national scale it ranks #30,732 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 42% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,231 a month while the average household earns $72,976 a year, roughly 20% of income at the averages. About 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0497, -76.2987 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ross scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ross compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%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.
- 26%Grade A
- 35%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)
- 685Total filings over 7 yrs
- 12.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.2%Peak (2006)
- 142Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ross. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Ross
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. 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 Lancaster eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Lancaster County average of 5.3 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
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.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 60th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42071000300
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