Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Cedarbrook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101025800 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 1,845 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 5.8/10, tract 42101025800 in the Cedarbrook area of Philadelphia, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units857
Renter share19.7%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$50,813
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
36
th percentile
Low
Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0740, -75.1823 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cedarbrook scores 5.8
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
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,520 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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 Cedarbrook compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 1%Grade A
- 99%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 56Total filings over 4 yrs
- 7.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.0%Peak (2010)
- 15Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 36Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.39×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 Cedarbrook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cedarbrook
Set annual rent against average income of $50,813 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most 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. Cost burden runs 56% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Court records carry 56 eviction filings across 4 observed years. It sits 0.8 points below the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 9.0% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,520, 9% above the Philadelphia average.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 7.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101025800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101025800?
Census tract 42101025800 in the Cedarbrook neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 42101025800?
Median gross rent is $1,520/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101025800?
8.2% of residents in tract 42101025800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,845.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101025800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 70th, minority 95th, housing 20th.
Q5
Is tract 42101025800 considered part of Cedarbrook?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101025800 fall within Cedarbrook (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101025800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 56 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101025800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.73% of renter households, peaking at 9.0% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101025800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.39× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 42101025800 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101025800 scores 5.8/10, 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 42101025800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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