South Oakland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, 76% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 64% of average household income of $28,444, 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 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

74% 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. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,517, 20% above the Pittsburgh average. The voucher gap is 18.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Court records carry 214 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

On the high side, supply constraint reads 6.9/10. The worst year on record was 2002, when 7.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

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