South Pottstown Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Chester County average of 4.4. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Court records carry 204 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 6.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.6/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters.

Average gross rent is $1,222, close to the South Pottstown average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $72,797. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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