Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Holmesburg Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia
Tract 42101032900 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,656 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 42101032900 sits in the Holmesburg area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.3/10.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 20%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,891
Renter share35.9%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate9.6%
Median income$57,571
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
33
th percentile
Low
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0383, -75.0250 · click any tract to drill in
Why Holmesburg scores 5.7
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
9.6% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,139 rent vs county FMR
1.3
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 Holmesburg compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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
- 15%Grade B
- 49%Grade C
- 14%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)
- 331Total filings over 4 yrs
- 9.85%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.6%Peak (2016)
- 97Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 188Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.46×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 Holmesburg. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Holmesburg
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. At $1,139 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 331 filings here across 4 tracked years.
Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Filings peaked in 2016 at 11.6% of renter households.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 9.9% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $57,571.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101032900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101032900?
Census tract 42101032900 in the Holmesburg neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 42101032900?
Median gross rent is $1,139/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101032900?
9.6% of residents in tract 42101032900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,656.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101032900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 70th, minority 71th, housing 63th.
Q5
Is tract 42101032900 considered part of Holmesburg?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101032900 fall within Holmesburg (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101032900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 331 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101032900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.85% of renter households, peaking at 11.6% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101032900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.46× 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 42101032900 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101032900 scores 5.7/10, 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 42101032900 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. 14% 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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