Bethel Park Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. It sits 2.0 points below the Allegheny County average of 5.0. At $961 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Bethel Park commands.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 43 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2003 at 4.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.