Belmar Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003120300 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 2,093 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 42003120300 (the Belmar area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) comes in at 6.9/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than about 93% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 53% of renter households, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,054 monthly, set against $27,358 in average yearly household income, roughly 46% of income at the averages. About 51% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 40.4694, -79.9029 · click any tract to drill in
Why Belmar scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Belmar compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 67%Grade C
- 5%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 259Total filings over 7 yrs
- 11.26%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.1%Peak (2000)
- 23Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Belmar
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.2/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Allegheny County average of 5.6 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 5% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 259 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 11.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 16.1% of renter households in 2000.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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