Rosemont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bethlehem
Tract 42077009300 · Lehigh County, PA · pop 3,416 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
The Elevated-tier score of 6.4/10 for census tract 42077009300 reflects conditions in Rosemont in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 41% of renter households, a severe level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,210 a month while the average household earns $88,864 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. About 22% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bethlehem and the region
Centroid at 40.6276, -75.4106 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rosemont scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Rosemont compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 33%Grade A
- 22%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 42Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2001)
- 4Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Rosemont
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Bethlehem eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Lehigh County average of 5.8 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 38th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of A ("Best"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 42077009300
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Highest-risk tracts in Bethlehem
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