Historic Bethlehem Eviction Risk: Elevated

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. At $912 a month, rents run 34% under what the rest of Bethlehem commands.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Cost burden runs 36% here against 43.1% across Northampton County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 194 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 3.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.