West Side Eviction Risk: Elevated , Scranton

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $38,375 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

It sits 1.6 points above the Lackawanna County average of 4.6. 49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Lackawanna County average of 41.6%. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 26 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most 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.