Lancaster Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,250, 15% above the Lancaster average. The filing record is not thin: 178 evictions over 13 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Fairfield County average of 4.0 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.