Morgantown Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs roughly one in four here against 35.8% across Adams County. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.6/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $723 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Morgantown commands.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 25.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Adams County average of 4.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $41,528.

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.