Mayflower Eviction Risk: Elevated , Wilkes-Barre

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Luzerne County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. At $693 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Wilkes-Barre commands. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 284 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 6.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Wilkes-Barre. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.