West End Theatre District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

At $844 a month, rents run 36% under what the rest of Allentown commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $30,714, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Lehigh County at 45.1%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 338 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 6.6% of renter households were served.

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