Volunteertown Eviction Risk: High , Philadelphia
Tract 42101039001 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 4,047 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42101039001 covers part of the Volunteertown area of Philadelphia, PA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,047. Cost burden runs 70% here against 49.1% across Philadelphia County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region
Centroid at 40.0414, -75.0906 · click any tract to drill in
Why Volunteertown scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Volunteertown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 61%Grade B
- 39%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 147Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.27×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Volunteertown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Volunteertown
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. At $1,048 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Philadelphia commands.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Philadelphia County average of 6.6. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.
That is riskier than roughly 91% 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 3.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $41,296.
59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
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