Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Fishtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101015800 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 6,849 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 42101015800 sits in the Fishtown area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. It is home to 6,849 residents. At $1,859 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 58%
Tract context
Occupied units3,289
Renter share42.2%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$116,629
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
7
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
10
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9736, -75.1294 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fishtown 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
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,859 rent vs county FMR
5.3
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 Fishtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 19%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%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
- 100%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)
- 60Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2011)
- 12Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 20% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 43Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.80×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 Fishtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fishtown
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.7/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Court records carry 60 eviction filings across 4 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 1.8% 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $116,629. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101015800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101015800?
Census tract 42101015800 in the Fishtown 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 42101015800?
Median gross rent is $1,859/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101015800?
6.8% of residents in tract 42101015800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,849.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101015800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 1th, minority 38th, housing 94th.
Q5
Is tract 42101015800 considered part of Fishtown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101015800 fall within Fishtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101015800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 60 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101015800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.58% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101015800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.80× 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 42101015800 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101015800 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 42101015800 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. 100% 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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