Goose Island Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilkes-Barre

Cost burden runs 55% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 190 filings here across 7 tracked years. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10. It sits 0.8 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5.

At $1,065 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Wilkes-Barre commands. Filings peaked in 2005 at 8.5% 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 4.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, 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.