Providence Eviction Risk: Elevated , Scranton

Cost burden runs 71% here against 41.6% across Lackawanna County. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $37,857, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Lackawanna County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. 65% 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.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 163 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 6.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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.