Indian Creek Eviction Risk: Lower , Merion Station
Tract 42091205503 · Montgomery County, PA · pop 5,064 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 3.2/10, tract 42091205503 in the Indian Creek area of Penn Wynne, PA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,064 residents. Cost burden runs roughly one in eight here against 42.6% across Montgomery County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Merion Station and the region
Centroid at 39.9862, -75.2697 · click any tract to drill in
Why Indian Creek scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Indian Creek compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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
- 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)
- 20Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2000)
- 4Filings in 2005 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Indian Creek. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Indian Creek
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.4/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
The voucher gap is 24.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10.
It sits 1.1 points below the Montgomery County average of 4.3. At $2,242 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Penn Wynne commands. Court records carry 20 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2000, when 3.6% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Philadelphia. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 42091205503
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Highest-risk tracts in Merion Station
Top eight tracts in Merion Station ranked by composite eviction-risk score.