Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Northwood Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101029400 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,841 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 42101029400 sits in the Northwood area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. It is home to 3,841 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,192
Renter share56.5%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate45.4%
Median income$33,661
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
83
th percentile
High
Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0095, -75.0860 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northwood scores 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
45.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$883 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Northwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 94%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)
- 319Total filings over 4 yrs
- 13.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.2%Peak (2010)
- 64Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 29% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 205Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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 Northwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Northwood
Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 76% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 45%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $883 a month, rents run 37% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 319 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 15.2% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 13.2% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 91% 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 42101029400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101029400?
Census tract 42101029400 in the Northwood neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 42101029400?
Median gross rent is $883/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 76% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101029400?
45.4% of residents in tract 42101029400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,841.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101029400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 96th, minority 90th, housing 93th.
Q5
Is tract 42101029400 considered part of Northwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101029400 fall within Northwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101029400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 319 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101029400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.16% of renter households, peaking at 15.2% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101029400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× 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 42101029400 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101029400 scores 8/10, 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 42101029400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 94% 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
Highest-risk tracts in Philadelphia
Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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