College Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lancaster

It sits 2.3 points above the Lancaster County average of 4.2. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 388 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 6.9/10. The worst year on record was 2003, when 8.4% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lancaster. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 6.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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