Within neighborhood
67
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally
Sunset Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Castle Shannon
Tract 42003472400 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 1,870 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 42003472400 sits in the Sunset Hills area of Dormont, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.7/10. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 7%
Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units758
Renter share10.4%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate6.5%
Median income$94,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
39
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Castle Shannon and the region
Centroid at 40.3879, -80.0381 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Hills scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Castle Shannon
6.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
6.5% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,078 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Castle Shannon
5.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Castle Shannon
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Castle Shannon
5.2
How Sunset Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 14%Racial/ethnic minority
- 2%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 67Total filings over 7 yrs
- 7.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.1%Peak (2005)
- 7Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunset Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sunset Hills
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. Cost burden runs 34% here against 40.6% across Allegheny County.
10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 67 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 9.1% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 7.3% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 42003472400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003472400?
Census tract 42003472400 in the Sunset Hills neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (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 42003472400?
Median gross rent is $1,078/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42003472400?
6.5% of residents in tract 42003472400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,870.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42003472400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 31th, minority 14th, housing 2th.
Q5
Is tract 42003472400 considered part of Sunset Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003472400 fall within Sunset Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003472400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 67 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003472400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.32% of renter households, peaking at 9.1% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 42003472400 compare to Castle Shannon overall?
Tract 42003472400 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Castle Shannon at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Castle Shannon; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 42003472400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Castle Shannon
Top eight tracts in Castle Shannon ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Related