Central Lawrenceville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003090100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 2,073 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Here is how census tract 42003090100, in the Central Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 5.9/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 2,073. On the national scale it ranks #24,690 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
37% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,570 a month against an average household income of $99,500 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 59% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region
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Why Central Lawrenceville scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Central Lawrenceville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 54%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 253Total filings over 7 yrs
- 7.62%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.3%Peak (2003)
- 35Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Central Lawrenceville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Central Lawrenceville
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 7.3/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Allegheny County average of 5.6 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 54% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 22nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 42003090100
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