Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against a Easton baseline of 29.4%, 41% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3.8 to 6.5, a 2.7-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. 22% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side is economic stress, at 1.8/10. Court records carry 832 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.8/10.

Filing activity peaked in 2005 at 12.3% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 9.9% in 2006 against a 12.3% peak. That places it #5 of 4 neighborhoods in Easton.

For a like-for-like read, West Ward and South Easton score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $102,327, annual rent is only 16%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 4.6 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.