All Counties in Pennsylvania, Eviction Risk 2026
67 counties covering 1,952 incorporated cities and 7,305,933 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 3.8/10 (Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Philadelphia County | 1.59M | 4.2 | Dem | 32.8% | 30.7% | $1,502 | 10.7% | 7 |
| 02 | Potter County | 6,351 | 4.1 | Rep | 28.9% | 33.9% | $834 | 13.7% | 9 |
| 03 | Carbon County | 40,875 | 4.1 | Rep | 27.4% | 30.1% | $1,081 | 15.5% | 19 |
| 04 | Delaware County | 280,849 | 4.0 | Dem | 36.1% | 32.8% | $1,491 | 12.1% | 42 |
| 05 | Fayette County | 60,769 | 4.0 | Rep | 32.4% | 29.5% | $867 | 21.6% | 53 |
| 06 | Pike County | 28,235 | 4.0 | Rep | 16.1% | 46.1% | $1,587 | 13.4% | 15 |
| 07 | Wyoming County | 5,934 | 4.0 | Rep | 37.3% | 31.6% | $1,019 | 15.4% | 8 |
| 08 | Elk County | 21,724 | 4.0 | Rep | 21.5% | 27.3% | $694 | 10.6% | 10 |
| 09 | Jefferson County | 18,833 | 4.0 | Rep | 30.5% | 24.2% | $804 | 15.5% | 13 |
| 10 | Tioga County | 14,973 | 4.0 | Rep | 28.1% | 31.3% | $908 | 14.5% | 14 |
| 11 | Greene County | 16,906 | 4.0 | Rep | 21.4% | 22.6% | $894 | 10.6% | 23 |
| 12 | Susquehanna County | 11,150 | 4.0 | Rep | 25.7% | 28.7% | $879 | 15.9% | 20 |
| 13 | Venango County | 27,765 | 4.0 | Rep | 28.7% | 29.1% | $752 | 15.6% | 15 |
| 14 | McKean County | 18,964 | 4.0 | Rep | 28.4% | 27.3% | $782 | 15.1% | 10 |
| 15 | Crawford County | 33,736 | 4.0 | Rep | 30.1% | 29.2% | $777 | 18.4% | 28 |
| 16 | Monroe County | 48,559 | 4.0 | Dem | 23.3% | 37.6% | $1,161 | 10.0% | 16 |
| 17 | Clearfield County | 37,013 | 3.9 | Rep | 22.6% | 25.8% | $824 | 16.9% | 37 |
| 18 | Clinton County | 23,868 | 3.9 | Rep | 24.0% | 26.6% | $973 | 12.3% | 25 |
| 19 | Lycoming County | 60,469 | 3.9 | Rep | 29.3% | 26.6% | $954 | 11.4% | 14 |
| 20 | Indiana County | 28,695 | 3.9 | Rep | 24.5% | 29.8% | $826 | 14.9% | 28 |
| 21 | Wayne County | 14,700 | 3.9 | Rep | 23.8% | 29.9% | $1,076 | 15.0% | 14 |
| 22 | Beaver County | 79,257 | 3.9 | Rep | 29.5% | 27.5% | $948 | 12.5% | 34 |
| 23 | Armstrong County | 28,496 | 3.9 | Rep | 27.9% | 29.1% | $779 | 14.5% | 30 |
| 24 | Erie County | 144,880 | 3.9 | IND | 30.3% | 25.7% | $981 | 16.2% | 20 |
| 25 | Mercer County | 60,536 | 3.9 | Rep | 27.6% | 27.2% | $776 | 14.0% | 22 |
| 26 | Allegheny County | 836,902 | 3.9 | Dem | 32.4% | 28.9% | $1,047 | 11.6% | 113 |
| 27 | Bedford County | 10,419 | 3.9 | Rep | 35.6% | 31.0% | $824 | 18.4% | 14 |
| 28 | Clarion County | 12,663 | 3.9 | Rep | 31.8% | 25.7% | $775 | 12.4% | 14 |
| 29 | Fulton County | 2,671 | 3.9 | Rep | 29.9% | 24.2% | $922 | 10.4% | 11 |
| 30 | Schuylkill County | 94,118 | 3.9 | Rep | 21.2% | 27.5% | $888 | 14.1% | 77 |
| 31 | Cambria County | 76,123 | 3.9 | Rep | 21.7% | 28.0% | $735 | 15.3% | 57 |
| 32 | Montgomery County | 436,831 | 3.9 | Dem | 29.5% | 29.8% | $1,687 | 7.0% | 67 |
| 33 | Warren County | 18,498 | 3.9 | Rep | 19.3% | 24.2% | $745 | 13.5% | 12 |
| 34 | Somerset County | 26,899 | 3.9 | Rep | 21.1% | 27.5% | $756 | 11.1% | 29 |
| 35 | Luzerne County | 232,289 | 3.9 | Rep | 26.9% | 31.9% | $1,039 | 14.5% | 65 |
| 36 | Columbia County | 36,423 | 3.8 | Rep | 33.6% | 30.5% | $969 | 19.4% | 25 |
| 37 | Bradford County | 20,232 | 3.8 | Rep | 38.7% | 25.5% | $881 | 13.8% | 18 |
| 38 | Washington County | 99,538 | 3.8 | Rep | 25.4% | 29.0% | $995 | 11.1% | 56 |
| 39 | Westmoreland County | 162,418 | 3.8 | Rep | 27.5% | 28.5% | $897 | 12.2% | 59 |
| 40 | Bucks County | 199,309 | 3.8 | IND | 25.7% | 30.0% | $1,630 | 6.0% | 38 |
| 41 | Huntingdon County | 15,489 | 3.8 | Rep | 27.0% | 23.2% | $822 | 13.1% | 20 |
| 42 | Northumberland County | 51,495 | 3.8 | Rep | 26.1% | 29.4% | $815 | 13.0% | 23 |
| 43 | Lackawanna County | 177,403 | 3.8 | Dem | 24.2% | 27.9% | $1,093 | 9.9% | 26 |
| 44 | Sullivan County | 1,601 | 3.8 | Rep | 28.3% | 25.6% | $786 | 13.7% | 7 |
| 45 | Lehigh County | 231,322 | 3.8 | Dem | 28.2% | 29.0% | $1,402 | 11.2% | 27 |
| 46 | Perry County | 9,543 | 3.8 | Rep | 38.0% | 26.4% | $875 | 20.0% | 10 |
| 47 | Chester County | 158,485 | 3.8 | Dem | 32.0% | 32.8% | $1,697 | 7.8% | 46 |
| 48 | Montour County | 8,001 | 3.8 | Rep | 32.7% | 26.8% | $949 | 15.5% | 6 |
| 49 | Dauphin County | 168,621 | 3.8 | Dem | 36.1% | 27.0% | $1,133 | 14.2% | 33 |
| 50 | Lawrence County | 46,202 | 3.8 | Rep | 23.2% | 29.3% | $844 | 11.8% | 26 |
| 51 | Adams County | 39,595 | 3.8 | Rep | 25.2% | 29.1% | $1,155 | 13.2% | 25 |
| 52 | Cumberland County | 89,615 | 3.8 | Rep | 44.2% | 29.9% | $1,201 | 12.7% | 18 |
| 53 | Lebanon County | 77,539 | 3.8 | Rep | 26.6% | 29.6% | $1,219 | 10.0% | 27 |
| 54 | Butler County | 61,744 | 3.8 | Rep | 32.2% | 26.0% | $1,027 | 12.2% | 32 |
| 55 | Northampton County | 190,304 | 3.8 | IND | 27.2% | 30.7% | $1,419 | 8.9% | 31 |
| 56 | York County | 201,276 | 3.7 | Rep | 32.2% | 30.3% | $1,207 | 9.3% | 53 |
| 57 | Franklin County | 65,980 | 3.7 | Rep | 34.6% | 26.2% | $1,035 | 10.1% | 19 |
| 58 | Blair County | 85,776 | 3.7 | Rep | 28.4% | 30.1% | $875 | 17.2% | 86 |
| 59 | Berks County | 264,334 | 3.7 | Rep | 28.0% | 31.5% | $1,312 | 11.0% | 82 |
| 60 | Forest County | 3,892 | 3.7 | Rep | 35.6% | 25.2% | $748 | 9.8% | 5 |
| 61 | Centre County | 92,870 | 3.7 | IND | 29.9% | 34.7% | $1,197 | 15.5% | 43 |
| 62 | Cameron County | 2,263 | 3.7 | Rep | 28.6% | 32.2% | $734 | 12.7% | 4 |
| 63 | Snyder County | 13,335 | 3.7 | Rep | 32.8% | 24.8% | $916 | 13.5% | 12 |
| 64 | Mifflin County | 23,188 | 3.7 | Rep | 28.8% | 26.3% | $834 | 13.6% | 24 |
| 65 | Juniata County | 5,042 | 3.7 | Rep | 38.8% | 20.6% | $820 | 11.4% | 11 |
| 66 | Union County | 15,294 | 3.6 | Rep | 29.1% | 27.6% | $1,007 | 9.4% | 13 |
| 67 | Lancaster County | 231,875 | 3.6 | Rep | 30.4% | 28.7% | $1,242 | 10.1% | 62 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's 67 counties span eviction-risk scores from 3.6 in Lancaster County to 4.2 in Philadelphia County , a 0.6-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 3.8/10 (Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, Philadelphia County, Potter County, Carbon County, are Pennsylvania's denser, higher-cost markets. In Pike County, renters spend an average of 46% of household income on rent, and 16% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Lancaster County, Union County, Juniata County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Pennsylvania state overview.