North End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kingston

At $1,263 a month, rents run 34% over what the rest of Wilkes-Barre commands. Against the Luzerne County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Cost burden runs 45% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

Court records carry 68 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10.

The voucher gap is 12.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2001, when 4.6% of renter households were served.

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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.