West Side Eviction Risk: Elevated , Scranton

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.7/10. Against the Lackawanna County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 124 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 4.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.