North Gate Eviction Risk: Elevated , Hazleton

It sits 2.2 points above the Luzerne County average of 4.5. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 179 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2005, when 6.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 37% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $1,057, close to the Hazleton average.

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.