Neighborhood · Ranked #14,906 of 84,120 nationally

Rittersville Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

Tract 42077009601 · Lehigh County, PA · pop 2,470 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 6.6/10, tract 42077009601 in the Rittersville area of Allentown, PA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,470 residents. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

6.6

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 33% Owners 46%

Tract context

Occupied units1,051

Renter share54.4%

SVI overall0.94

Poverty rate27.4%

Median income$58,156

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Allentown and the region

Centroid at 40.6153, -75.4282 · click any tract to drill in

Why Rittersville scores 6.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Allentown

5.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.4

State political climate

Pennsylvania legislature & governorship

3.4

Economic stress

27.4% poverty · this tract

6.9

Supply constraint

$942 rent vs county FMR

1.3

Rent control risk

Inherited from Allentown

4.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Allentown

5.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Allentown

5.5

How Rittersville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

65%Socioeconomic
100%Household composition
73%Racial/ethnic minority
93%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
0%Grade D · redlined

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Rittersville

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. It sits 1.9 points above the Lehigh County average of 4.7.

At $942 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Allentown commands. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Cost burden runs 38% here against 45.1% across Lehigh County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 6.9/10. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bethlehem. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 42077009601

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42077009601?

Census tract 42077009601 in the Rittersville neighborhood scores 6.6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 42077009601?

Median gross rent is $942/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 42077009601?

27.4% of residents in tract 42077009601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,470.

How socially vulnerable is tract 42077009601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 100th, minority 73th, housing 93th.

Is tract 42077009601 considered part of Rittersville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42077009601 fall within Rittersville (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

How does tract 42077009601 compare to Allentown overall?

Tract 42077009601 scores 6.6/10, higher than the parent city of Allentown at 5.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Allentown eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 42077009601 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

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