Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally
Harrisburg Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101034801 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,719 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 42101034801 covers part of the Harrisburg area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 6.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,719. Cost burden runs 17% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units2,113
Renter share52.5%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate18.0%
Median income$64,608
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0533, -75.0159 · click any tract to drill in
Why Harrisburg scores 6.4
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
18.0% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$629 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 Harrisburg compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%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
- 0%Grade B
- 17%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)
- 54Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.6%Peak (2012)
- 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 39Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.31×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.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Harrisburg
At $629 a month, rents run 55% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.
The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 54 filings here across 4 tracked years. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 1.6% 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101034801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101034801?
Census tract 42101034801 in the Harrisburg neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 42101034801?
Median gross rent is $629/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 17% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101034801?
18.0% of residents in tract 42101034801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,719.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101034801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 48th, minority 31th, housing 40th.
Q5
Is tract 42101034801 considered part of Harrisburg?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101034801 fall within Harrisburg (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101034801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 54 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101034801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.41% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101034801 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.31× 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 42101034801 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101034801 scores 6.4/10, 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 42101034801 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.
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