Shadyside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 7.8/10. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. At $1,485 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

The voucher gap is 16.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 110 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 3.2% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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