College Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , State College

Cost burden runs 65% here against 44.4% across Centre County. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.4/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.3/10. Average gross rent is $1,608, 26% above the State College average.

Against the Centre County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The voucher gap is 12.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $140,357, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.