Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Sunset Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Castle Shannon
Tract 42003473300 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 5,920 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 42003473300 in the Sunset Hills area of Allegheny County, PA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units2,389
Renter share22.4%
SVI overall0.19
Poverty rate2.8%
Median income$133,563
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
19
th percentile
Very Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Castle Shannon and the region
Centroid at 40.3800, -80.0303 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Hills scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Castle Shannon
3.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
2.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,103 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Castle Shannon
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Castle Shannon
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Castle Shannon
5.0
How Sunset Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%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.
- 4%Grade A
- 31%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)
- 62Total filings over 7 yrs
- 2.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2001)
- 9Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 50% 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
The voucher gap is 64.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Against the Allegheny County average of 5.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 62 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2001, when 4.6% 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 22% 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 2.7/10 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 42003473300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003473300?
Census tract 42003473300 in the Sunset Hills neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 42003473300?
Median gross rent is $2,103/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 42003473300?
2.8% of residents in tract 42003473300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,920.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 42003473300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 19th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 35th, minority 11th, housing 69th.
Q5
Is tract 42003473300 considered part of Sunset Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003473300 fall within Sunset Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003473300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 62 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003473300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.27% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2001. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 42003473300 compare to Castle Shannon overall?
Tract 42003473300 scores 3/10, 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 42003473300 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.
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