Shadyside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $37,259, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

72% 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. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 7.8/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 7.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 263 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 2.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, 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.

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.