East End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilkes-Barre

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Average gross rent is $1,217, 29% above the Wilkes-Barre average.

Cost burden runs 29% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. 67% 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. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

Court records carry 134 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2004 at 10.5% 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 8.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Luzerne County average of 4.5 closely.

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