Chinchilla Eviction Risk: Lower

Against Lackawanna County at 41.6%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.6/10. At $1,294 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Chinchilla commands.

It sits 1.6 points below the Lackawanna County average of 4.6. On the softer side, housing-court posture reads 2.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10.

The voucher gap is 15.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Court records carry 3 eviction filings across 3 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2000 at 0.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $79,318.

26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.