Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #15,522 of 84,120 nationally
Sugar Notch Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 42079215000 · Luzerne County, PA · pop 1,440 · 72% of tract blocks fall in Sugar Notch
Census tract 42079215000 covers Sugar Notch in Luzerne County, home to 1,440 residents. For landlords it grades 5.5/10, a moderate reading. It lands near the 56th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 38% of renter households, a high level, and 9% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $891 a month against an average household income of $54,250 a year, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 33% of occupied homes.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 20%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units595
Renter share32.6%
SVI overall0.50
Poverty rate23.1%
Median income$54,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
84
th percentile
High
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Sugar Notch and the region
Centroid at 41.1918, -75.9386 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sugar Notch scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Sugar Notch
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
23.1% poverty · this tract
5.8
Supply constraint
$891 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Sugar Notch
2.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Sugar Notch
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Sugar Notch
5.7
How Sugar Notch compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 13%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)
- 20Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2004)
- 2Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 33% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sugar Notch
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 8.2/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Sugar Notch, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Luzerne County average of 5.4 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 50th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 13% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 42079215000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42079215000?
Census tract 42079215000 in Sugar Notch scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 42079215000?
Median gross rent is $891/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42079215000?
23.1% of residents in tract 42079215000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,440.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42079215000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 50th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 71th, household 59th, minority 5th, housing 30th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42079215000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 20 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42079215000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.81% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
How does tract 42079215000 compare to Sugar Notch overall?
Tract 42079215000 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Sugar Notch at 3.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Sugar Notch; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 42079215000 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 13% 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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