Midway Manor Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.9/10.

The filing record is not thin: 609 evictions over 7 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,184, 10% below the Allentown average.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 38.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 25.1% 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 8.9/10, 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. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $52,683.

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