Tract 42069110201 Eviction Risk: Lower

18% 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 1.6 points. Against Lackawanna County at 41.6%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 16 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 4.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $85,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.