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Neighborhood · Ranked #10,727 of 84,120 nationally

Garden Court Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101009300 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 5,200 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 42101009300 covers part of the Garden Court area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 7.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,200. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 16% Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units2,139
Renter share42.7%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate21.8%
Median income$40,933

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Garden Court
Very Low
Within parent city
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#139 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#140 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#196 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9623, -75.2240 · click any tract to drill in

Why Garden Court scores 7.4

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
21.8% poverty · this tract
5.5
Supply constraint
$1,089 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Garden Court compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Garden Court risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.4This tracttract 0093006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 314Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 9.23%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.4%Peak (2011)
  • 89Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101009300
Filings climbed 27% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 338Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 8.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.55×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 Garden Court. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Garden Court

Cost burden runs 63% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. At $1,089 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.

The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 314 filings here across 4 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 10.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% 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 42101009300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101009300?

Census tract 42101009300 in the Garden Court neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (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 42101009300?

Median gross rent is $1,089/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101009300?

21.8% of residents in tract 42101009300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,200.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101009300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 93th, minority 95th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 42101009300 considered part of Garden Court?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101009300 fall within Garden Court (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101009300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 314 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101009300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.23% of renter households, peaking at 10.4% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101009300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.55× 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 42101009300 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101009300 scores 7.4/10, 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 42101009300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 99% 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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