Within neighborhood
57
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,571 of 84,120 nationally
Whitman Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia
Tract 42101037200 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 3,918 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 6.3/10, tract 42101037200 in the Whitman area of Philadelphia, PA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,918. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.
Risk score
6.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units1,684
Renter share27.6%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate19.7%
Median income$75,185
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
44
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 39.9130, -75.1599 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whitman scores 6.3
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
19.7% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,496 rent vs county FMR
3.3
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 Whitman compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 71%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)
- 33Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.51%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.0%Peak (2012)
- 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 26Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.51×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 Whitman. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Whitman
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 33 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 3.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 53% of renters. It tracks the Philadelphia County average of 6.6 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42101037200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101037200?
Census tract 42101037200 in the Whitman neighborhood scores 6.3/10 (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 42101037200?
Median gross rent is $1,496/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42101037200?
19.7% of residents in tract 42101037200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,918.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42101037200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 85th, minority 64th, housing 57th.
Q5
Is tract 42101037200 considered part of Whitman?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101037200 fall within Whitman (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42101037200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 33 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 42101037200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.51% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 42101037200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.51× 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 42101037200 compare to Philadelphia overall?
Tract 42101037200 scores 6.3/10, 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 42101037200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 71% 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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