Northwood Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101030100 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 6,010 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 42101030100 covers part of the Northwood area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,010 residents. Severe burden reaches 44%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0205, -75.0885 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northwood scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Northwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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
- 26%Grade B
- 73%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)
- 948Total filings over 4 yrs
- 19.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 22.2%Peak (2012)
- 222Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 797Total filings 2020-21
- 10.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 17.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.58×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 Northwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Northwood
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.9/10. Average gross rent is $749, 46% below the Philadelphia average. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 948 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 22.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 19.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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