Waverly Eviction Risk: Lower

29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Lackawanna County average of 41.6%. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.9/10. Against the Lackawanna County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.

The voucher gap is 20.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 2.3/10. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Court records carry 42 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 4.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $138,867, annual rent is just 12%.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

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