Swisshelm Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Swissvale

Average gross rent is $1,983, 57% above the Pittsburgh average. The voucher gap is 54.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Cost burden runs 26% here against 40.6% across Allegheny County. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Court records carry 20 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2000 at 8.3% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.2/10.

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