Brookline Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 63 evictions over 7 years of observation. 8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $1,099, 13% below the Pittsburgh average.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 12.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 6.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $83,264, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.