Tacony Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101031501 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 7,479 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 42101031501 covers part of the Tacony area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 7.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,479 residents. 46% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0366, -75.0482 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tacony scores 7.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Tacony compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%Housing & transportation
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.
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)
- 157Total filings over 4 yrs
- 6.97%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.7%Peak (2016)
- 51Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 209Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.62×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 Tacony. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Tacony
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $59,738, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Against Philadelphia County at 49.1%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,648, 18% above the Philadelphia average.
Court records carry 157 eviction filings across 4 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.7% 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 7.0% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
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.
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