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Cedar Grove Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101029000 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 8,182 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 42101029000 sits in the Cedar Grove area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.4/10. 54% 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
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 9% Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units2,093
Renter share24.1%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate20.8%
Median income$40,870

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Cedar Grove
Moderate
Within parent city
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#141 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#138 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#196 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0308, -75.1171 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cedar Grove scores 7.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
20.8% poverty · this tract
5.2
Supply constraint
$1,166 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Cedar Grove compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cedar Grove risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.4This tracttract 0290006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 235Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 6.62%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.8%Peak (2012)
  • 41Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101029000
Filings dropped 32% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 171Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.62×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Cedar Grove. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cedar Grove

Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.5/10. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $40,870, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,166 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.

The filing record is not thin: 235 evictions over 4 years of observation. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 7.8% of renter households. 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 6.6% of renter households face a filing.

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 42101029000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101029000?

Census tract 42101029000 in the Cedar Grove neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (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 average rent in tract 42101029000?

Median gross rent is $1,166/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101029000?

20.8% of residents in tract 42101029000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,182.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101029000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 98th, minority 96th, housing 71th.
Q5

Is tract 42101029000 considered part of Cedar Grove?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101029000 fall within Cedar Grove (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101029000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 235 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101029000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.62% of renter households, peaking at 7.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101029000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.62× 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 42101029000 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101029000 scores 7.4/10, 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.
Q9

Was tract 42101029000 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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