Mayflower Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilkes-Barre

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2/10.

Cost burden runs 47% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. 16% 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 1.3 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5. At $783 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Wilkes-Barre commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

The filing record is not thin: 74 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2001 at 1.5% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10.

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