Norristown Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against the Montgomery County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. Cost burden runs 55% here against 42.6% across Montgomery County.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 221 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 10.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 7.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,420, close to the Norristown average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $81,195.

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