Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Oil City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42121200800 · Venango County, PA · pop 2,648
Tract 42121200800 sits in Oil City, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. It is home to 2,648 residents. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units1,036
Renter share27.3%
SVI overall0.38
Poverty rate22.3%
Median income$53,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Oil City and the region
Centroid at 41.4145, -79.7216 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oil City scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Oil City
3.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.9
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
22.3% poverty · this tract
5.6
Supply constraint
$869 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oil City
2.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oil City
3.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oil City
3.6
How Oil City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 10%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
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)
- 37Total filings over 6 yrs
- 2.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2006)
- 10Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 233% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Oil City
Cost burden runs 45% here against 36.2% across Venango County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 2.7/10.
The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, regional political climate reads 2.9/10.
Against the Venango County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 37 evictions over 6 years of observation. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 3.1/10.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 3.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10. Average gross rent is $869, close to the Oil City average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42121200800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42121200800?
Census tract 42121200800 in Oil City scores 4.8/10 (Moderate 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 42121200800?
Median gross rent is $869/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42121200800?
22.3% of residents in tract 42121200800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,648.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42121200800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 38th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 37th, minority 10th, housing 37th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42121200800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 37 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 42121200800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.02% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42121200800 compare to Oil City overall?
Tract 42121200800 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Oil City at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oil City; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Oil City
Top eight tracts in Oil City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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