Lewistown Eviction Risk: Elevated

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 49% here against 34.8% across Mifflin County. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9.1/10.

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Mifflin County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Running cool, regional political climate reads 2.2/10. Court records carry 257 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2003 at 6.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $827, close to the Lewistown average.

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.