Lower Moosic Eviction Risk: Lower , Old Forge

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.5 points below the Lackawanna County average of 4.6. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.3/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 41.6% across Lackawanna County.

The filing record is not thin: 65 evictions over 7 years of observation. The voucher gap is 12.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2000, when 3.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 22nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler. Average gross rent is $1,268, close to the Moosic average.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $74,792.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.