Franklin Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Lehigh County average of 45.1%. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. 79% 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.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $41,769, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.9 points above the Lehigh County average of 4.7.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 911 evictions over 7 years of observation.

At $1,177 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Allentown commands. Filings peaked in 2006 at 15.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 11.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.