West Oakland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, roughly three in four of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $31,250 and the ratio lands at 55%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 62%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

69% 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. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

Court records carry 365 eviction filings across 7 observed years. At $1,432 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. The worst year on record was 2000, when 18.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 12.8% of renter households face a filing.

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.