Reading Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42011000500 · Berks County, PA · pop 4,119
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 42011000500 (Reading, Pennsylvania) comes in at 5.5/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than roughly 56% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 25% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,103 a month against an average household income of $57,581 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Reading and the region
Centroid at 40.3627, -75.9215 · click any tract to drill in
Why Reading scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Reading compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 199Total filings over 7 yrs
- 8.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.8%Peak (2005)
- 30Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Reading
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Reading eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Berks County average of 5.7 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 199 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 8.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 8.8% of renter households in 2005.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 61st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42011000500
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Highest-risk tracts in Reading
Top eight tracts in Reading ranked by composite eviction-risk score.