Hershey Eviction Risk: Moderate

91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 44% here against 39.0% across Dauphin County. Court records carry 143 eviction filings across 6 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 6.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Dauphin County average of 4.6 closely. Average gross rent is $1,298, close to the Hershey average.

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.