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Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Ashton Wooden Bridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Philadelphia

Tract 42101034600 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 2,679 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 42101034600 sits in the Ashton Wooden Bridge area of Philadelphia eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Population here is 2,679. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 35% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,411
Renter share72.4%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate9.3%
Median income$63,115

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Ashton Wooden Bridge
Very Low
Within parent city
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#283 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Low
Within county
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#282 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Low
Within state
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#838 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 40.0709, -75.0206 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ashton Wooden Bridge scores 5.6

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
9.3% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,391 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 Ashton Wooden Bridge compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ashton Wooden Bridge risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 0346006.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 65

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)

  • 480Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 12.99%Avg annual filing rate
  • 15.1%Peak (2016)
  • 144Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42101034600
Filings climbed 20% over the past 4 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 513Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 10.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.64×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 Ashton Wooden Bridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Ashton Wooden Bridge

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. Against the Philadelphia County average of 6.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

Court records carry 480 eviction filings across 4 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 15.1% 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 13.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. 51% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $1,391, close to the Philadelphia average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101034600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101034600?

Census tract 42101034600 in the Ashton Wooden Bridge neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 42101034600?

Median gross rent is $1,391/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101034600?

9.3% of residents in tract 42101034600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,679.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101034600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 42th, minority 71th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 42101034600 considered part of Ashton Wooden Bridge?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101034600 fall within Ashton Wooden Bridge (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101034600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 480 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101034600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.99% of renter households, peaking at 15.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 42101034600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.64× 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 42101034600 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101034600 scores 5.6/10, 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 42101034600 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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