Hill Section Eviction Risk: Moderate , Scranton

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Lackawanna County average of 41.6%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Lackawanna County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10. Court records carry 260 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 5.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.