East End Eviction Risk: Elevated , Wilkes-Barre

The poverty rate is 41%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $27,885 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.2/10. 70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Against the Luzerne County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 34% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 363 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 10.2% of renter households were served. 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 6.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.