In the 12 months between May 1, 2025, and April 30, 2026, landlords have filed to evict 4,974 Bucks County households. The 9.42 % eviction rate in Pennsylvania’s third wealthiest county is much higher than the rest of the commonwealth – ranking fifth after Dauphin, York, Lehigh and Delaware counties respectively.
Bucks County state Representative Jim Prokopiak has noticed.
Early last year Prokopiak sponsored legislation he hopes will arrest the rapidly increasing rental prices that plague his district. And in the middle of last month, the legislator and his co-sponsor, Montgomery County’s Nancy Guenst, hosted a press conference to remind his fellow lawmakers, constituents and the press that relief is going nowhere because HB 914 has stalled in the Housing and Community Development Committee – since March 2025…