Spring Garden Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101013300 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,500 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 42101013300 in the Spring Garden area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. about a quarter of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9666, -75.1629 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spring Garden scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Spring Garden compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 25%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 83%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)
- 223Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2012)
- 51Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 181Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.54×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Spring Garden. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Spring Garden
80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Average gross rent is $1,722, 23% above the Philadelphia average. It sits 1.4 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 223 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.4% of renter households were served.
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 4.6% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
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.
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