West Oak Lane Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101026600 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 7,060 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 42101026600 covers part of the West Oak Lane area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 6.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 7,060. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0635, -75.1473 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Oak Lane scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Oak Lane compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 67
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 65%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.
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)
- 120Total filings over 4 yrs
- 6.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.9%Peak (2012)
- 25Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 54Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.42×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Oak Lane. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in West Oak Lane
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%.
Court records carry 120 eviction filings across 4 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 8.9% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 6.9% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 24% 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 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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