Bucks County hired a consultant in April 2023 to study blight in the county, and a report was released in February. The first phase report of the Bucks County Comprehensive Blighted Property Study, created by The Gulotta Group, draws on a variety of sources to examine blight and draws conclusions about the levels of blight risk in individual municipalities (Page 21) and the challenges municipalities face. The municipalities with the lowest scores and highest blight risk were Bristol Borough (74.8), Quakertown Borough (125.9) and Morrisville Borough (135.6). The municipalities with the lowest blight risk were Upper Makefield Township (723.8), Solebury Township (613.4) and Wrightstown Township (566). Bucks County overall had a score of 308.3. Read more in the planning commission’s May newsletter.
Source: Bucks County Planning Commission newsletter; 5/2024