Central Oakland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, 85% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 60% of average household income of $30,205, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 76%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 95% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. At $1,500 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

The voucher gap is 17.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The filing record is not thin: 107 evictions over 7 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2000, when 2.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.