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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Rosslyn Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 47%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 51%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 411Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.0%Peak (2000)
- 59Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Rosslyn Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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