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Rosslyn Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Carnegie

Tract 42003468900 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 3,805 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 42003468900 sits in the Rosslyn Heights area of Carnegie, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5/10. It is home to 3,805 residents. Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, about one in five of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 43% Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units2,009
Renter share54.1%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$60,300

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Rosslyn Heights
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Carnegie
Very High
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#191 of 394 tracts In Allegheny County
Moderate
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#1,245 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Carnegie and the region

Centroid at 40.4041, -80.0782 · click any tract to drill in

Why Rosslyn Heights scores 5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Carnegie
6.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
11.8% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,011 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Carnegie
4.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Carnegie
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Carnegie
4.8

How Rosslyn Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Rosslyn Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.0This tracttract 4689004.3Carnegieparent city5.0Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 55

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)

  • 411Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 5.39%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.0%Peak (2000)
  • 59Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42003468900
Filings dropped 31% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Rosslyn Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Rosslyn Heights

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 411 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.9/10. At $1,011 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Carnegie commands. The worst year on record was 2000, when 8.0% of renter households were served.

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 5.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Allegheny County average of 5.0 closely.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $60,300.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 42003468900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003468900?

Census tract 42003468900 in the Rosslyn Heights neighborhood scores 5/10 (Moderate 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 42003468900?

Median gross rent is $1,011/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42003468900?

11.8% of residents in tract 42003468900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,805.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42003468900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 46th, minority 47th, housing 78th.
Q5

Is tract 42003468900 considered part of Rosslyn Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003468900 fall within Rosslyn Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003468900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 411 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003468900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.39% of renter households, peaking at 8.0% in 2000. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42003468900 compare to Carnegie overall?

Tract 42003468900 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Carnegie at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Carnegie; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42003468900 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. 1% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Carnegie

Top eight tracts in Carnegie ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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