Rolling Mill Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wilkes-Barre

The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 51% here against 38.9% across Luzerne County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10. Against the Luzerne County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Average gross rent is $897, 16% below the Ashley average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 75 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2000, when 4.9% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

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