Elliott Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.8/10.

The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,041 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 3.1/10.

Court records carry 408 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 19.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Pittsburgh. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 12.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. 44% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $42,372.

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