West Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Easton

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 403 evictions over 7 years of observation. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 3/10.

At $1,207 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Wilson commands. Filings peaked in 2006 at 5.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

45% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Northampton County average of 4.5 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $74,048.

42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.