West View Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 53% here against 40.6% across Allegheny County. It sits 1.7 points below the Allegheny County average of 5.0.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.7/10. The filing record is not thin: 144 evictions over 7 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 3.8% of renter households.

Average gross rent is $988, 9% below the West View average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 3.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $81,412, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.