Perry Hilltop Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003261400 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 2,174 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 42003261400 sits in Perry Hilltop in Pittsburgh eviction risk, Pennsylvania eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. On the national scale it ranks #7,359 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
64% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 49% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $33,750 a year. About 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 40.4657, -80.0121 · click any tract to drill in
Why Perry Hilltop scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Perry Hilltop compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 57%Grade B
- 36%Grade C
- 7%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)
- 455Total filings over 7 yrs
- 12.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.2%Peak (2003)
- 46Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Perry Hilltop
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.2/10. 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 above the Allegheny County average of 5.6 and above the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 7% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was B ("Still Desirable"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 455 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 12.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 16.2% of renter households in 2003.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 42003261400
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