Oakwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Crafton

Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. It sits 0.9 points below the Allegheny County average of 5.0. Court records carry 140 eviction filings across 7 observed years.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The worst year on record was 2005, when 3.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #47,371 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $90,798, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.