Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,308 of 84,120 nationally
Tacony Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101032500 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 6,195 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
42101032500 is a census tract in the Tacony area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 6.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,195. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units2,414
Renter share42.2%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$52,342
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
55
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0264, -75.0453 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tacony scores 6.7
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
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,016 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Tacony compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 100%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 21%Grade B
- 72%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)
- 427Total filings over 4 yrs
- 12.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.9%Peak (2012)
- 85Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 18% over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 318Total filings 2020-21
- 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.63×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 Tacony. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tacony
The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. At $1,016 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 427 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 12.9% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 12.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Philadelphia County average of 6.6 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $52,342.
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 42101032500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101032500?
Census tract 42101032500 in the Tacony neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (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 42101032500?
Median gross rent is $1,016/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101032500?
17.7% of residents in tract 42101032500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,195.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101032500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 100th, minority 72th, housing 31th.
Q5
Is tract 42101032500 considered part of Tacony?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101032500 fall within Tacony (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101032500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 427 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101032500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.05% of renter households, peaking at 12.9% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101032500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.63× 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 42101032500 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101032500 scores 6.7/10, 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 42101032500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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