Bedford Dwellings Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

At $538 a month, rents run 57% under what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 49% of average household income of $13,307, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 2.3 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Allegheny County average of 40.6%. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,696 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2001 at 43.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 30.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.