Mussertown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lancaster

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Against the Lancaster County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points.

Running hot, economic stress reads 9.3/10. Set annual rent against average income of $26,400 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. At $909 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Lancaster commands.

The filing record is not thin: 1,061 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2006, when 17.1% 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.

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