Darktown Eviction Risk: Lower , Hokendauqua

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. 24% 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 1.7 points below the Lehigh County average of 4.7. Against Lehigh County at 45.1%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Average gross rent is $1,229, 17% below the Hokendauqua average. Running cool, housing-court posture reads 2.7/10.

The filing record is not thin: 152 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2000 at 7.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.