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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,433 of 84,120 nationally

Overbrook Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101010000 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 5,306 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 42101010000 sits in the Overbrook area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.7/10. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 15% Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,912
Renter share38.3%
SVI overall0.86
Poverty rate27.4%
Median income$54,871

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#2 of 7 tracts In Overbrook
High
Within parent city
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#119 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#114 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#135 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9711, -75.2504 · click any tract to drill in

Why Overbrook scores 7.7

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
27.4% poverty · this tract
6.9
Supply constraint
$1,250 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 Overbrook compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Overbrook risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.7This tracttract 0100006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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)

  • 214Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 8.90%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.9%Peak (2016)
  • 63Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101010000
Filings climbed 31% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 165Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.51×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 Overbrook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Overbrook

Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 214 filings here across 4 tracked years.

At $1,250 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.9% 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 8.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10.

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 42101010000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101010000?

Census tract 42101010000 in the Overbrook neighborhood scores 7.7/10 (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 42101010000?

Median gross rent is $1,250/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101010000?

27.4% of residents in tract 42101010000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,306.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101010000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 82th, household 77th, minority 95th, housing 73th.
Q5

Is tract 42101010000 considered part of Overbrook?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101010000 fall within Overbrook (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101010000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 214 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101010000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.90% of renter households, peaking at 9.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101010000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.51× 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 42101010000 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101010000 scores 7.7/10, 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 42101010000 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. 23% 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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