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Lawndale Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101030600 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 7,192 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 6.6/10, tract 42101030600 in the Lawndale area of Philadelphia, PA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,192 residents. Severe burden reaches 48%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
6.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 18% Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units2,939
Renter share37.2%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate14.9%
Median income$44,108

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Lawndale
Very Low
Within parent city
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#189 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Moderate
Within county
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#203 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Moderate
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#436 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0505, -75.0944 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lawndale scores 6.6

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
14.9% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,222 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 Lawndale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Lawndale risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.6This tracttract 0306006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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)

  • 209Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 4.39%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.7%Peak (2011)
  • 53Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101030600
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 226Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Palm Beach as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Lawndale. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Lawndale

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $44,108, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.8/10.

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

Court records carry 209 eviction filings across 4 observed years. At $1,222 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.7% of renter households were served.

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 4.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101030600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101030600?

Census tract 42101030600 in the Lawndale neighborhood scores 6.6/10 (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 42101030600?

Median gross rent is $1,222/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101030600?

14.9% of residents in tract 42101030600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,192.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101030600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 98th, minority 76th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 42101030600 considered part of Lawndale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101030600 fall within Lawndale (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101030600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 209 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101030600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.39% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101030600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 42101030600 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101030600 scores 6.6/10, right in line with 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 42101030600 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

Highest-risk tracts in Philadelphia

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

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