Owl Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate , Tamaqua

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10.

Against the Schuylkill County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

At $792 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Tamaqua commands. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The filing record is not thin: 42 evictions over 3 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2000 at 4.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $53,917, annual rent is just 18%.

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.