East Liberty Eviction Risk: Elevated

83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. The voucher gap is 26.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. At $1,617 a month, rents sit 28% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 4.8 to 6.9, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. 20% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Pulling the other way is economic stress, at 2.7/10. Filings are well documented here: 1,691 across 2 observed tracts. Filing activity peaked in 2000 at 18.2% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 6.0% in 2006, is well off that peak. That places it #53 of 78 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Chateau and Fifth & Forbes. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $81,147.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.1 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.