Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally
Bridesburg Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101018400 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,202 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 42101018400 covers part of the Bridesburg area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 54%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units882
Renter share10.7%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$73,478
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
28
th percentile
Low
Within county
28
th percentile
Low
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0033, -75.0630 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bridesburg scores 5.5
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
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,456 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Bridesburg compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 44%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 28Total filings over 4 yrs
- 3.67%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2012)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 75% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 25Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-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 Bridesburg. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bridesburg
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. Cost burden runs 54% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Court records carry 28 eviction filings across 4 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.2% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
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 42101018400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101018400?
Census tract 42101018400 in the Bridesburg neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (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 42101018400?
Median gross rent is $1,456/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101018400?
10.5% of residents in tract 42101018400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,202.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101018400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 98th, minority 15th, housing 38th.
Q5
Is tract 42101018400 considered part of Bridesburg?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101018400 fall within Bridesburg (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101018400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 28 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101018400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.67% of renter households, peaking at 4.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101018400 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 42101018400 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101018400 scores 5.5/10, 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 42101018400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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
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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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