Swisshelm Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Swissvale
Tract 42003141100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 1,432 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
In Swisshelm Park in Swissvale, census tract 42003141100 scores 5.5/10 for eviction risk. It lands near the 56th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 26% of renter households, a moderate level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,983 monthly, set against $108,571 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 15% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Swissvale and the region
Centroid at 40.4196, -79.9076 · click any tract to drill in
Why Swisshelm Park scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Swisshelm Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 31%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)
- 20Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.3%Peak (2000)
- 3Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Swisshelm Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Swisshelm Park
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at $1/10. 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 Swissvale, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Allegheny County average of 5.6 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), 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 2nd 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 42003141100
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