West Tarentum Eviction Risk: Moderate , New Kensington

The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. At $894 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of New Kensington commands.

Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.6/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Westmoreland County average of 4.1 closely. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $49,970.

25% 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.