Kensington Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia

32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $27,006, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Cost burden runs 61% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.

At $988 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.

Court records carry 111 eviction filings across 4 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.9% 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 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 10/10.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.