Westwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003563100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 3,491 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 42003563100 sits in the Westwood area of Pittsburgh eviction risk, PA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Pittsburgh and the region
Centroid at 40.4309, -80.0437 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westwood scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 42%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%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
- 13%Grade B
- 32%Grade C
- 15%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)
- 162Total filings over 7 yrs
- 5.62%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2004)
- 23Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Westwood
Against Allegheny County at 40.6%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10.
At $996 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Pittsburgh commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.8/10. Court records carry 162 eviction filings across 7 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2004 at 7.1% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 5.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.9/10.
Against average income of $71,009, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
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