Sacred Heart Eviction Risk: Elevated

37% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The strongest single driver of the headline number is economic stress at 9.2/10. The poverty rate is 37%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. Set annual rent against average household income of $45,318 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The filing record is not thin: 351 evictions logged in this tract. The worst year on record was 2006, when filings touched 24.3% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,232, 6% below the Allentown average of $1,317.

Among the 26 mapped neighborhoods of Allentown, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third. Judgments average 11.7% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

Social vulnerability runs high at 10/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 6.6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.