North End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kingston

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 37 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 4.8% of renter households.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Wilkes-Barre. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $66,417, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 37% of renters. It tracks the Luzerne County average of 4.5 closely.

Average gross rent is $973, close to the Kingston average. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.