CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Franklin County, with a population of about 160,000 residents, has filed 6,611 eviction notices since the Covid ban on evictions was lifted in 2020, and its data show 125 filings in March, according to the Civil Court Data iniative.
The same data show the county has 38.8 percent of its residents identified as “rent burdened” and a poverty rate of 7.8 percent.
Pennsylvania landlords filed more than 18,000 eviction cases against their tenants in the first two months of 2026, according to a nonprofit that tracks civil court data. An affordability crisis worsens and “nearly half of renters across the commonwealth” are considered cost-burdened. A Civil Court Data Initiative analysis shows more than 1,000 evictions were filed in both Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties in February alone, but eviction filing rates were highest over the prior year in much smaller communities, per USA Today Network.
The study had no data for Maryland or Maryland counties.
