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Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally

Upper Lawrenceville Eviction Risk: Lower , Etna

Tract 42003427200 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 4,544 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

With a score of 3.9/10, tract 42003427200 in the Upper Lawrenceville area of Allegheny County, PA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,544 residents. Cost burden runs 27% here against 40.6% across Allegheny County.

Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5% Stable renters 14% Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units2,388
Renter share18.6%
SVI overall0.21
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$69,758

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Upper Lawrenceville
Very Low
Within county
37 th percentile
Rank, 37th percentileLowHigh
#249 of 394 tracts In Allegheny County
Low
Within state
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#1,923 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Moderate
National
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#50,654 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Etna and the region

Centroid at 40.4948, -79.9654 · click any tract to drill in

Why Upper Lawrenceville scores 3.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Etna
3.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,206 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Etna
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Etna
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Etna
5.0

How Upper Lawrenceville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Upper Lawrenceville risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.9This tracttract 4272005.9Etnaparent city5.0Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 21

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 163Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 4.46%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.7%Peak (2006)
  • 36Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42003427200
Filings climbed 157% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Upper Lawrenceville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Upper Lawrenceville

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.1 points below the Allegheny County average of 5.0. The filing record is not thin: 163 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 8.7% 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 4.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 19% 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 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent runs $1,206 a month.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 42003427200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003427200?

Census tract 42003427200 in the Upper Lawrenceville neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (Lower 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 42003427200?

Median gross rent is $1,206/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42003427200?

5.2% of residents in tract 42003427200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,544.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42003427200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 21th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 36th, household 59th, minority 12th, housing 8th.
Q5

Is tract 42003427200 considered part of Upper Lawrenceville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003427200 fall within Upper Lawrenceville (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003427200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 163 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003427200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.46% of renter households, peaking at 8.7% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42003427200 compare to Etna overall?

Tract 42003427200 scores 3.9/10, lower than the parent city of Etna at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Etna; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42003427200 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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