Blossom Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lewistown

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Mifflin County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.7/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, regional political climate reads 2.2/10.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 34.8% across Mifflin County. The filing record is not thin: 132 evictions over 7 years of observation.

At $724 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Lewistown commands. Filings peaked in 2003 at 4.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

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