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 3.9/10 (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 | Delaware County | 280,849 | 4.6 | Dem | 36.1% | 32.8% | $1,491 | 12.1% | 42 |
| 02 | Philadelphia County | 1.59M | 4.6 | Dem | 32.8% | 30.7% | $1,502 | 10.7% | 7 |
| 03 | Wyoming County | 5,934 | 4.4 | Rep | 37.3% | 31.6% | $1,019 | 15.4% | 8 |
| 04 | Cumberland County | 89,615 | 4.2 | Rep | 44.2% | 29.9% | $1,201 | 12.7% | 18 |
| 05 | Allegheny County | 836,902 | 4.2 | Dem | 32.4% | 28.9% | $1,047 | 11.6% | 113 |
| 06 | Chester County | 158,485 | 4.2 | Dem | 32.0% | 32.8% | $1,697 | 7.8% | 46 |
| 07 | Montgomery County | 436,831 | 4.2 | Dem | 29.5% | 29.8% | $1,687 | 7.0% | 67 |
| 08 | Fayette County | 60,769 | 4.1 | Rep | 32.4% | 29.5% | $867 | 21.6% | 53 |
| 09 | Dauphin County | 168,621 | 4.1 | Dem | 36.1% | 27.0% | $1,133 | 14.2% | 33 |
| 10 | Columbia County | 36,423 | 4.1 | Rep | 33.6% | 30.5% | $969 | 19.4% | 25 |
| 11 | York County | 201,276 | 4.0 | Rep | 32.2% | 30.3% | $1,207 | 9.3% | 53 |
| 12 | Monroe County | 48,559 | 4.0 | Dem | 23.3% | 37.6% | $1,161 | 10.0% | 16 |
| 13 | Perry County | 9,543 | 4.0 | Rep | 38.0% | 26.4% | $875 | 20.0% | 10 |
| 14 | Bradford County | 20,232 | 4.0 | Rep | 38.7% | 25.5% | $881 | 13.8% | 18 |
| 15 | Northampton County | 190,304 | 4.0 | IND | 27.2% | 30.7% | $1,419 | 8.9% | 31 |
| 16 | Bucks County | 199,309 | 4.0 | IND | 25.7% | 30.0% | $1,630 | 6.0% | 38 |
| 17 | Carbon County | 40,875 | 4.0 | Rep | 27.4% | 30.1% | $1,081 | 15.5% | 19 |
| 18 | Lehigh County | 231,322 | 4.0 | Dem | 28.2% | 29.0% | $1,402 | 11.2% | 27 |
| 19 | Jefferson County | 18,833 | 4.0 | Rep | 30.5% | 24.2% | $804 | 15.5% | 13 |
| 20 | Butler County | 61,744 | 4.0 | Rep | 32.2% | 26.0% | $1,027 | 12.2% | 32 |
| 21 | Luzerne County | 232,289 | 3.9 | Rep | 26.9% | 31.9% | $1,039 | 14.5% | 65 |
| 22 | Beaver County | 79,257 | 3.9 | Rep | 29.5% | 27.5% | $948 | 12.5% | 34 |
| 23 | Clarion County | 12,663 | 3.9 | Rep | 31.8% | 25.7% | $775 | 12.4% | 14 |
| 24 | Montour County | 8,001 | 3.9 | Rep | 32.7% | 26.8% | $949 | 15.5% | 6 |
| 25 | Erie County | 144,880 | 3.9 | IND | 30.3% | 25.7% | $981 | 16.2% | 20 |
| 26 | Lycoming County | 60,469 | 3.9 | Rep | 29.3% | 26.6% | $954 | 11.4% | 14 |
| 27 | Potter County | 6,351 | 3.9 | Rep | 28.9% | 33.9% | $834 | 13.7% | 9 |
| 28 | Bedford County | 10,419 | 3.9 | Rep | 35.6% | 31.0% | $824 | 18.4% | 14 |
| 29 | Tioga County | 14,973 | 3.9 | Rep | 28.1% | 31.3% | $908 | 14.5% | 14 |
| 30 | Berks County | 264,334 | 3.9 | Rep | 28.0% | 31.5% | $1,312 | 11.0% | 82 |
| 31 | Lancaster County | 231,875 | 3.8 | Rep | 30.4% | 28.7% | $1,242 | 10.1% | 62 |
| 32 | Lackawanna County | 177,403 | 3.8 | Dem | 24.2% | 27.9% | $1,093 | 9.9% | 26 |
| 33 | Westmoreland County | 162,418 | 3.8 | Rep | 27.5% | 28.5% | $897 | 12.2% | 59 |
| 34 | Juniata County | 5,042 | 3.8 | Rep | 38.8% | 20.6% | $820 | 11.4% | 11 |
| 35 | Crawford County | 33,736 | 3.8 | Rep | 30.1% | 29.2% | $777 | 18.4% | 28 |
| 36 | Adams County | 39,595 | 3.8 | Rep | 25.2% | 29.1% | $1,155 | 13.2% | 25 |
| 37 | Venango County | 27,765 | 3.8 | Rep | 28.7% | 29.1% | $752 | 15.6% | 15 |
| 38 | Wayne County | 14,700 | 3.8 | Rep | 23.8% | 29.9% | $1,076 | 15.0% | 14 |
| 39 | McKean County | 18,964 | 3.8 | Rep | 28.4% | 27.3% | $782 | 15.1% | 10 |
| 40 | Susquehanna County | 11,150 | 3.8 | Rep | 25.7% | 28.7% | $879 | 15.9% | 20 |
| 41 | Armstrong County | 28,496 | 3.7 | Rep | 27.9% | 29.1% | $779 | 14.5% | 30 |
| 42 | Franklin County | 65,980 | 3.7 | Rep | 34.6% | 26.2% | $1,035 | 10.1% | 19 |
| 43 | Lebanon County | 77,539 | 3.7 | Rep | 26.6% | 29.6% | $1,219 | 10.0% | 27 |
| 44 | Indiana County | 28,695 | 3.7 | Rep | 24.5% | 29.8% | $826 | 14.9% | 28 |
| 45 | Washington County | 99,538 | 3.7 | Rep | 25.4% | 29.0% | $995 | 11.1% | 56 |
| 46 | Mercer County | 60,536 | 3.7 | Rep | 27.6% | 27.2% | $776 | 14.0% | 22 |
| 47 | Union County | 15,294 | 3.7 | Rep | 29.1% | 27.6% | $1,007 | 9.4% | 13 |
| 48 | Northumberland County | 51,495 | 3.7 | Rep | 26.1% | 29.4% | $815 | 13.0% | 23 |
| 49 | Centre County | 92,870 | 3.7 | IND | 29.9% | 34.7% | $1,197 | 15.5% | 43 |
| 50 | Snyder County | 13,335 | 3.7 | Rep | 32.8% | 24.8% | $916 | 13.5% | 12 |
| 51 | Pike County | 28,235 | 3.7 | Rep | 16.1% | 46.1% | $1,587 | 13.4% | 15 |
| 52 | Clearfield County | 37,013 | 3.7 | Rep | 22.6% | 25.8% | $824 | 16.9% | 37 |
| 53 | Clinton County | 23,868 | 3.7 | Rep | 24.0% | 26.6% | $973 | 12.3% | 25 |
| 54 | Warren County | 18,498 | 3.6 | Rep | 19.3% | 24.2% | $745 | 13.5% | 12 |
| 55 | Lawrence County | 46,202 | 3.6 | Rep | 23.2% | 29.3% | $844 | 11.8% | 26 |
| 56 | Sullivan County | 1,601 | 3.6 | Rep | 28.3% | 25.6% | $786 | 13.7% | 7 |
| 57 | Cambria County | 76,123 | 3.6 | Rep | 21.7% | 28.0% | $735 | 15.3% | 57 |
| 58 | Huntingdon County | 15,489 | 3.6 | Rep | 27.0% | 23.2% | $822 | 13.1% | 20 |
| 59 | Somerset County | 26,899 | 3.6 | Rep | 21.1% | 27.5% | $756 | 11.1% | 29 |
| 60 | Fulton County | 2,671 | 3.6 | Rep | 29.9% | 24.2% | $922 | 10.4% | 11 |
| 61 | Greene County | 16,906 | 3.5 | Rep | 21.4% | 22.6% | $894 | 10.6% | 23 |
| 62 | Blair County | 85,776 | 3.5 | Rep | 28.4% | 30.1% | $875 | 17.2% | 86 |
| 63 | Cameron County | 2,263 | 3.5 | Rep | 28.6% | 32.2% | $734 | 12.7% | 4 |
| 64 | Elk County | 21,724 | 3.5 | Rep | 21.5% | 27.3% | $694 | 10.6% | 10 |
| 65 | Schuylkill County | 94,118 | 3.5 | Rep | 21.2% | 27.5% | $888 | 14.1% | 77 |
| 66 | Forest County | 3,892 | 3.5 | Rep | 35.6% | 25.2% | $748 | 9.8% | 5 |
| 67 | Mifflin County | 23,188 | 3.4 | Rep | 28.8% | 26.3% | $834 | 13.6% | 24 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's 67 counties span eviction-risk scores from 3.4 in Mifflin County to 4.6 in Delaware County , a 1.1-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 3.9/10 (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, Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Wyoming 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, Mifflin County, Forest County, Schuylkill 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.