Old Allentown Eviction Risk: Elevated

68% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Lehigh County average of 45.1%. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,985 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. It sits 1.5 points above the Lehigh County average of 4.7.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,490 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 22.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 18.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #17,132 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.