Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Spring Garden Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101013401 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,974 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 42101013401 covers part of the Spring Garden area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,974. 27% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,833
Renter share36.4%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate7.3%
Median income$147,361
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
4
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
5
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9660, -75.1753 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spring Garden scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
7.3% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$2,164 rent vs county FMR
7.0
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 Spring Garden compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 93%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.
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)
- 7Total filings over 4 yrs
- 0.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.4%Peak (2010)
- 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 10Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Spring Garden. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Spring Garden
Average gross rent is $2,164, 55% above the Philadelphia average. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.8/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
It sits 1.4 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. The voucher gap is 20.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
The filing record is not thin: 7 evictions over 4 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2010 at 0.4% 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 0.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% 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 42101013401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101013401?
Census tract 42101013401 in the Spring Garden neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 42101013401?
Median gross rent is $2,164/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101013401?
7.3% of residents in tract 42101013401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,974.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101013401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 16th, minority 23th, housing 81th.
Q5
Is tract 42101013401 considered part of Spring Garden?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101013401 fall within Spring Garden (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101013401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 7 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101013401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.33% of renter households, peaking at 0.4% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101013401 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101013401 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101013401 scores 5.2/10, lower 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 42101013401 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. 93% 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
Highest-risk tracts in Philadelphia
Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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