New Kensington Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $531 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of New Kensington commands. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10.

Against the Westmoreland County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $47,548, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in three of renters.

46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.