Petersburg Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dunmore

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.2/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 62 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 1.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Lackawanna County average of 4.6 closely.

Average gross rent is $878, close to the Dunmore average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $51,763.

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