Burnside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bethlehem

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 50 evictions over 7 years of observation. Against the Northampton County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

At $1,218 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Bethlehem commands. Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.9% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.2/10.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $104,018, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.