Dutch Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tamaqua

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 2.1 points above the Schuylkill County average of 3.9. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 48 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2003 at 3.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.7% 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 8.3/10, 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. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,000, close to the Tamaqua average. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $40,705.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.