College Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Lancaster
Tract 42071013503 · Lancaster County, PA · pop 3,204 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The College Park neighborhood of Lancaster anchors census tract 42071013503, which lands at 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 41st percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 19% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $2,112 a month against an average household income of $165,012 a year, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 13% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lancaster and the region
Centroid at 40.0449, -76.3344 · click any tract to drill in
Why College Park scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow College Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 88%Grade A
- 0%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)
- 14Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.14%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2002)
- 2Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within College Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in College Park
The heaviest input here is supply constraint 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 Lancaster eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Lancaster County average of 5.3 and below the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 2nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 14 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 1.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 1.7% of renter households in 2002.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42071013503
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