College Crest Colony Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Hazleton

Against the Luzerne County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.4/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 110 evictions over 7 years of observation.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.1/10. The worst year on record was 2006, when 6.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.