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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Hill District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Tract 42003051100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 458 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 42003051100 covers part of the Hill District area of Pittsburgh, PA, and scores 7.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 458. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 60% Stable renters 40% Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units292
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate86.8%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Hill District
Moderate
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 128 tracts In Pittsburgh
High
Within county
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#49 of 394 tracts In Allegheny County
High
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region

Centroid at 40.4416, -79.9764 · click any tract to drill in

Why Hill District scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
86.8% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,040 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pittsburgh
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0

How Hill District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Hill District risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0511005.9Pittsburghparent city5.0Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 71

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 2,335Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 62.51%Avg annual filing rate
  • 79.7%Peak (2003)
  • 348Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42003051100
Filings climbed 77% over the past 7 months.
Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Hill District

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Allegheny County average of 40.6%. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 87%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. It sits 2.3 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,040, 18% below the Pittsburgh average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,335 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 3.1/10. The worst year on record was 2003, when 79.7% of renter households were served.

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 62.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 42003051100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003051100?

Census tract 42003051100 in the Hill District neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 42003051100?

Median gross rent is $1,040/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42003051100?

86.8% of residents in tract 42003051100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 458.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42003051100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 78th, minority 86th, housing 27th.
Q5

Is tract 42003051100 considered part of Hill District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003051100 fall within Hill District (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003051100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,335 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003051100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 62.51% of renter households, peaking at 79.7% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42003051100 compare to Pittsburgh overall?

Tract 42003051100 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Pittsburgh at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42003051100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 100% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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