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Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally

Southwest Schuylkill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101007800 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,191 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 42101007800 covers part of the Southwest Schuylkill area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,191. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36% Stable renters 43% Owners 21%
Tract context
Occupied units2,207
Renter share79.5%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate23.2%
Median income$63,348

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 6 tracts In Southwest Schuylkill
Low
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#172 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#172 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#377 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9465, -75.2163 · click any tract to drill in

Why Southwest Schuylkill scores 7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Philadelphia
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.2
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
23.2% poverty · this tract
5.8
Supply constraint
$1,236 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Philadelphia
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Philadelphia
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Philadelphia
7.5

How Southwest Schuylkill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Southwest Schuylkill risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.0This tracttract 0078006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 66

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 273Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 4.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.9%Peak (2011)
  • 48Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101007800
Filings dropped 40% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 82Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.40×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Southwest Schuylkill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Southwest Schuylkill

This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The filing record is not thin: 273 evictions over 4 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,236, 12% below the Philadelphia average. The worst year on record was 2011, when 5.9% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101007800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101007800?

Census tract 42101007800 in the Southwest Schuylkill neighborhood scores 7/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 42101007800?

Median gross rent is $1,236/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101007800?

23.2% of residents in tract 42101007800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,191.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101007800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 11th, minority 55th, housing 92th.
Q5

Is tract 42101007800 considered part of Southwest Schuylkill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101007800 fall within Southwest Schuylkill (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101007800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 273 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101007800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.71% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101007800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.40× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 42101007800 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101007800 scores 7/10, higher than the parent city of Philadelphia at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Philadelphia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 42101007800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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