Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #19,618 of 84,120 nationally
Kingston Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42079212700 · Luzerne County, PA · pop 4,850
With a score of 5.9/10, tract 42079212700 in Kingston, PA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units2,338
Renter share58.4%
SVI overall0.69
Poverty rate27.2%
Median income$40,561
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
80
th percentile
High
National
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kingston and the region
Centroid at 41.2700, -75.8948 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kingston scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kingston
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
27.2% poverty · this tract
6.8
Supply constraint
$942 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kingston
4.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kingston
9.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kingston
6.3
How Kingston compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 75%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%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.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 260Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.96%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2006)
- 62Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 68% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kingston
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.4 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 260 filings here across 7 tracked years. At $942 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Kingston commands. Filings peaked in 2006 at 4.9% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 3.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42079212700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42079212700?
Census tract 42079212700 in Kingston scores 5.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 42079212700?
Median gross rent is $942/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42079212700?
27.2% of residents in tract 42079212700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,850.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42079212700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 69th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 58th, minority 19th, housing 73th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42079212700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 260 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42079212700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.96% of renter households, peaking at 4.9% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42079212700 compare to Kingston overall?
Tract 42079212700 scores 5.9/10, higher than the parent city of Kingston at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kingston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 42079212700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 1% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Kingston
Top eight tracts in Kingston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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