Southside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lancaster

Against the Lancaster County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10. The filing record is not thin: 1,481 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 6.9/10. Filings peaked in 2004 at 28.5% of renter households.

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 26.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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