Fifth & Forbes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003020100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 4,310 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
In the Fifth & Forbes area of Pittsburgh, census tract 42003020100 scores 5.8/10 for eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #27,624 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 31% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,671 monthly, set against $91,028 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 90% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region
Centroid at 40.4407, -80.0013 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fifth & Forbes scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fifth & Forbes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 35%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 10%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)
- 251Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.9%Peak (2003)
- 22Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Fifth & Forbes
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 8.1/10. 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 about the same as 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 251 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 3.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.9% of renter households in 2003.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 39th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42003020100
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