Hill Section Eviction Risk: Elevated , Scranton

63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Lackawanna County average of 41.6%. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 49%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Annualized rent equals 49% of average household income of $32,292, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.1/10. This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

It sits 1.8 points above the Lackawanna County average of 4.6. Average gross rent is $1,328, 27% above the Scranton average.

The voucher gap is 18.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 159 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 4.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10.

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