Highlands Historic District Eviction Risk: High , State College

Against the Centre County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.5 points. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 57%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Centre County average of 44.4%.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.4/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $35,566 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Average gross rent is $1,168, 8% below the State College average. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.