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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Summer Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

Tract 42003261300 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 2,996 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

42003261300 is a census tract in the Summer Hill area of Pittsburgh, PA. It scores 7.3/10 for landlords. Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, 23% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 41% Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,081
Renter share53.3%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate36.6%
Median income$55,817

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Summer Hill
Very High
Within parent city
69 th percentile
Rank, 69th percentileLowHigh
#41 of 128 tracts In Pittsburgh
Elevated
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#32 of 394 tracts In Allegheny County
Very High
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region

Centroid at 40.4860, -80.0059 · click any tract to drill in

Why Summer Hill scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
36.6% poverty · this tract
9.2
Supply constraint
$692 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pittsburgh
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0

How Summer Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Summer Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 2613005.9Pittsburghparent city5.0Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Summer Hill. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Summer Hill

At $692 a month, rents run 45% under what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.2/10.

Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $55,817, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 42003261300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003261300?

Census tract 42003261300 in the Summer Hill neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 42003261300?

Median gross rent is $692/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42003261300?

36.6% of residents in tract 42003261300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,996.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42003261300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 78th, household 94th, minority 77th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 42003261300 considered part of Summer Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003261300 fall within Summer Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 42003261300 compare to Pittsburgh overall?

Tract 42003261300 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Pittsburgh at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 42003261300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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