Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Rolling Mill Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Wilkes-Barre
Tract 42079200500 · Luzerne County, PA · pop 2,892 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 42079200500 sits in the Rolling Mill Hill area of Wilkes-Barre eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units1,374
Renter share70.2%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate20.6%
Median income$38,092
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
84
th percentile
High
Within state
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wilkes-Barre and the region
Centroid at 41.2392, -75.8963 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rolling Mill Hill scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wilkes-Barre
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
20.6% poverty · this tract
5.2
Supply constraint
$783 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wilkes-Barre
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wilkes-Barre
9.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wilkes-Barre
7.2
How Rolling Mill Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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.
- 53%Grade A
- 0%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 413Total filings over 7 yrs
- 6.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.5%Peak (2006)
- 76Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 31% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Rolling Mill Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rolling Mill Hill
Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5.
The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Cost burden runs 33% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. Average gross rent is $783, 17% below the Wilkes-Barre average.
Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 413 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2006 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 6.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 42079200500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42079200500?
Census tract 42079200500 in the Rolling Mill Hill neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 42079200500?
Median gross rent is $783/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42079200500?
20.6% of residents in tract 42079200500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,892.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42079200500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 72th, minority 73th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 42079200500 considered part of Rolling Mill Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42079200500 fall within Rolling Mill Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42079200500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 413 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42079200500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.88% of renter households, peaking at 8.5% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 42079200500 compare to Wilkes-Barre overall?
Tract 42079200500 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Wilkes-Barre at 4.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wilkes-Barre eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 42079200500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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/ 10 · Elevated
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5.8
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5.5
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