Scranton Eviction Risk: Lower

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10.

11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Lackawanna County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 23 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 1.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 19% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $96,159, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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