South Poplar Eviction Risk: Moderate , Allentown

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Lehigh County at 45.1%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.7/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,295 filings here across 7 tracked years. Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. At $1,515 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Allentown commands.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 30.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 28.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $65,221.

62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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