Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally
Volunteertown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101030900 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,459 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42101030900 covers part of the Volunteertown area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 6.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,550
Renter share50.8%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate13.4%
Median income$56,782
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
83
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0438, -75.0852 · click any tract to drill in
Why Volunteertown scores 6.1
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
13.4% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,487 rent vs county FMR
3.3
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 Volunteertown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%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.
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)
- 313Total filings over 4 yrs
- 11.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.3%Peak (2012)
- 67Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 243Total filings 2020-21
- 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×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 Volunteertown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Volunteertown
39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Philadelphia County average of 49.1%. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. The filing record is not thin: 313 evictions over 4 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 13.3% of renter households. 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 11.7% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #17,650 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Philadelphia County average of 6.6 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,487, close to the Philadelphia average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $56,782.
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 42101030900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101030900?
Census tract 42101030900 in the Volunteertown neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (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 42101030900?
Median gross rent is $1,487/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101030900?
13.4% of residents in tract 42101030900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,459.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101030900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 96th, minority 86th, housing 83th.
Q5
Is tract 42101030900 considered part of Volunteertown?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101030900 fall within Volunteertown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101030900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 313 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101030900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.70% of renter households, peaking at 13.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101030900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.68× 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 42101030900 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101030900 scores 6.1/10, lower 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 42101030900 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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