South Side Flats Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

It sits 2.3 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Allegheny County average of 40.6%.

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,499 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

The voucher gap is 17.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 244 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2003 at 4.2% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.