Clearfield Terrace Eviction Risk: Elevated , Bethlehem

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. 76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.3/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 598 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 9.9% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Bethlehem. 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 6.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.