Central Business District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lancaster

Against the Lancaster County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points. 85% 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. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,105 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.9/10. At $1,096 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Lancaster commands. Filings peaked in 2000 at 15.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 15.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 40% of renters.

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