7th Street Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

Cost burden runs 81% here against 45.1% across Lehigh County. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.2/10. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $43,160, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 605 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $1,443, 10% above the Allentown average. The worst year on record was 2005, when 19.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 15.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.