Union Terrace Eviction Risk: Elevated , Allentown

Against the Lehigh County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $41,023, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.3/10.

At $1,097 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Allentown commands. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 825 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 8.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 7.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10.

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