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Neighborhood · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally

Wynnefield Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Philadelphia

Tract 42101980002 · Philadelphia County, PA · pop 12 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

42101980002 is a census tract in the Wynnefield Heights area of Philadelphia, PA. It scores 6.5/10 for landlords. Population here is 12. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Wynnefield Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#214 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia
Moderate
Within county
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#211 of 408 tracts In Philadelphia County
Moderate
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#500 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Philadelphia and the region

Centroid at 39.9917, -75.2020 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wynnefield Heights scores 6.5

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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Wynnefield Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wynnefield Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.5This tracttract 9800026.6Philadelphiaparent city6.6Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 23Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.43×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 Wynnefield Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Wynnefield Heights

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

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. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Model confidence here is 45%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point. It tracks the Philadelphia County average of 6.6 closely.

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 42101980002

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42101980002?

Census tract 42101980002 in the Wynnefield Heights neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (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

How socially vulnerable is tract 42101980002?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3

Is tract 42101980002 considered part of Wynnefield Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42101980002 fall within Wynnefield Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q4

Did eviction filings in tract 42101980002 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.43× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Palm Beach), 2020-2021.
Q5

How does tract 42101980002 compare to Philadelphia overall?

Tract 42101980002 scores 6.5/10, 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.
Q6

Was tract 42101980002 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. 1% 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

Highest-risk tracts in Philadelphia

Top eight tracts in Philadelphia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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