Bluff Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.5/10. It sits 2.3 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0.

The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The voucher gap is 31.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

At $1,677 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. Set annual rent against average income of $56,125 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, supply constraint reads 8.1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.