Homewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh

Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, 30% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Average gross rent is $1,520, 21% above the Pittsburgh average.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The voucher gap is 18.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Court records carry 427 eviction filings across 7 observed years. On the high side, supply constraint reads 6.9/10.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 13.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 9.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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