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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41% Stable renters 18% Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units1,310
Renter share58.9%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate47.7%
Median income$41,296

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Volunteertown
Very High
Within parent city
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#62 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
High
Within county
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#83 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

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-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
47.7% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,048 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 Volunteertown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Volunteertown risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.0This tracttract 0390016.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 147Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.27×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 Volunteertown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 42101039001

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101039001?

Census tract 42101039001 in the Volunteertown neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 42101039001?

Median gross rent is $1,048/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 70% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42101039001?

47.7% of residents in tract 42101039001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,047.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101039001?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 93th, minority 92th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 42101039001 considered part of Volunteertown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101039001 fall within Volunteertown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 42101039001 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.27× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 42101039001 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101039001 scores 8/10, higher 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.
Q8

Was tract 42101039001 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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