Center City Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

Cost burden runs 86% here against 45.1% across Lehigh County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 57%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Set annual rent against average income of $32,599 and the ratio lands at 48%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10.

80% 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. Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 1,172 evictions over 7 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 41.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 26.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

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