Duquesne Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh

The main counterweight is economic stress at 2.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Average gross rent is $1,473, 17% above the Pittsburgh average.

Court records carry 138 eviction filings across 7 observed years. The voucher gap is 15.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2006, when 4.9% of renter households were served.

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 #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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