Oakland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

71% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Allegheny County average of 40.6%. Set annual rent against average income of $15,534 and the ratio lands at 97%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 82%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 90% 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.

Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Court records carry 148 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2000 at 3.1% 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10.

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.