Sunnyside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lancaster
Tract 42071013400 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 2,702 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 42071013400 sits in Sunnyside in Lancaster eviction risk, Pennsylvania eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.9/10. On the national scale it ranks #24,747 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 60% of renter households, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,172 a month against an average household income of $81,576 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 20% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0352, -76.2793 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunnyside scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunnyside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%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
- 9%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)
- 100Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.9%Peak (2006)
- 26Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunnyside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside
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 above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 65th 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 100 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 6.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 13.9% of renter households in 2006.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42071013400
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