Duquesne Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003191100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 2,276 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Here is how census tract 42003191100, in Duquesne Heights in Pittsburgh eviction risk, looks to a landlord: a 5.4/10 eviction-risk score (Moderate tier) across a population of 2,276. That is riskier than roughly 52% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 23% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a moderate level, and 7% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,473 monthly, set against $84,438 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
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Why Duquesne Heights scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Duquesne Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 23%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 10%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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
- 43%Grade C
- 31%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)
- 138Total filings over 7 yrs
- 3.94%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2006)
- 28Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Duquesne Heights
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 6.5/10. 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 Pittsburgh eviction risk, 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 138 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 3.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.9% of renter households in 2006.
Part of this tract, about 31% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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