Squirrel Hill North Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003140100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 6,118 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 42003140100 sits in Squirrel Hill North in Pittsburgh eviction risk, Pennsylvania eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 6.4/10. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
74% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 74% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,774 a month against an average household income of $169,954 a year, roughly 13% of income at the averages. About 23% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region
Centroid at 40.4427, -79.9374 · click any tract to drill in
Why Squirrel Hill North scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Squirrel Hill North compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 24
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 61%Grade A
- 6%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 33Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.41%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.4%Peak (2002)
- 4Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Squirrel Hill North
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 8.9/10. 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.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of A ("Best"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 24th 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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