Parsons Eviction Risk: Elevated , Wilkes-Barre

51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Luzerne County average of 38.9%. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.7 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 117 filings here across 7 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,087, 15% above the Wilkes-Barre average. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.

The worst year on record was 2000, when 7.7% 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 4.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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