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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally

Oxford Circle Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101031300 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 7,227 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Tract 42101031300 sits in the Oxford Circle area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. Population here is 7,227. Severe burden reaches 41%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 17% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units2,382
Renter share46.7%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate24.8%
Median income$63,241

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Oxford Circle
Very High
Within parent city
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#153 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Elevated
Within county
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#149 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Elevated
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#339 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0394, -75.0700 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oxford Circle scores 7.2

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
24.8% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$1,383 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Oxford Circle compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oxford Circle risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.2This tracttract 0313006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 96

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)

  • 414Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 8.46%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.0%Peak (2012)
  • 87Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101031300
Filings dropped 17% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 223Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 6.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.43×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 Oxford Circle. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oxford Circle

Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

Court records carry 414 eviction filings across 4 observed years. It sits 0.6 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 10.0% of renter households were served. 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 8.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,383, close to the Philadelphia average. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $63,241.

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 42101031300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101031300?

Census tract 42101031300 in the Oxford Circle neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (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 42101031300?

Median gross rent is $1,383/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101031300?

24.8% of residents in tract 42101031300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,227.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101031300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 95th, minority 83th, housing 80th.
Q5

Is tract 42101031300 considered part of Oxford Circle?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101031300 fall within Oxford Circle (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101031300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 414 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101031300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.46% of renter households, peaking at 10.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101031300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.43× 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 42101031300 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101031300 scores 7.2/10, 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 42101031300 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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