East End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilkes-Barre

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 49% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.2/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5. The filing record is not thin: 90 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10. The worst year on record was 2002, when 4.2% 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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