Chambersburg Eviction Risk: High , Trenton

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 2.7 points above the Mercer County average of 5.7. Housing insecurity runs 36.7% against 14.2% nationally.

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.3/10. Set annual rent against average income of $58,729 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Average gross rent is $1,659, 28% above the Trenton average.

Cost burden runs 55% here against 46.5% across Mercer County. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Court records carry 760 eviction filings across 6 observed years. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7/10.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 18.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Trenton. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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.