Within neighborhood
67
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally
East Germantown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101024800 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,250 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
42101024800 is a census tract in the East Germantown area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 7.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,250 residents. Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units794
Renter share30.4%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate38.3%
Median income$50,385
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0468, -75.1669 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Germantown scores 7.9
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
38.3% poverty · this tract
9.6
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 East Germantown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%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
- 42%Grade B
- 58%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)
- 75Total filings over 4 yrs
- 9.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.8%Peak (2012)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 20% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 63Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.57×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Germantown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in East Germantown
32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.6/10.
The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The filing record is not thin: 75 evictions over 4 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2012 at 10.8% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 9.4% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.3 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 42101024800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101024800?
Census tract 42101024800 in the East Germantown neighborhood scores 7.9/10 (Elevated 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 poverty rate in tract 42101024800?
38.3% of residents in tract 42101024800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,250.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101024800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 61th, minority 97th, housing 8th.
Q4
Is tract 42101024800 considered part of East Germantown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101024800 fall within East Germantown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101024800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 75 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101024800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.40% of renter households, peaking at 10.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 42101024800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.57× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 42101024800 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101024800 scores 7.9/10, higher 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.
Q8
Was tract 42101024800 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.
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