West Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia

At $736 a month, rents run 47% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The poverty rate is 50%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Cost burden runs 36% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $24,497, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 414 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 10.8% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.