Allentown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Allegheny County average of 40.6%. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 7.8/10.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 445 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Average gross rent is $1,120, 11% below the Pittsburgh average. Filings peaked in 2002 at 15.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 12.8% 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 5.8/10, 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.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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