Miners Mills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Plains

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Luzerne County at 38.9%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 98 filings here across 7 tracked years. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 4.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $64,583, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.