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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 19% Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units1,641
Renter share28.4%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate2.5%
Median income$71,009

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Westwood
Moderate
Within parent city
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#109 of 128 tracts In Pittsburgh
Very Low
Within county
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#169 of 394 tracts In Allegheny County
Elevated
Within state
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#957 of 3,445 tracts In Pennsylvania
Elevated
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.0
State political climate
Pennsylvania legislature & governorship
3.4
Economic stress
2.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$996 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pittsburgh
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pittsburgh
6.0

How Westwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 5631005.9Pittsburghparent city5.0Countyavg tract in county4.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 43

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)

  • 162Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 5.62%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.1%Peak (2004)
  • 23Filings in 2006 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2006
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 42003563100
Filings climbed 35% over the past 7 months.
Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 42003563100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 42003563100?

Census tract 42003563100 in the Westwood neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 42003563100?

Median gross rent is $996/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 42003563100?

2.5% of residents in tract 42003563100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,491.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 42003563100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 42th, minority 34th, housing 24th.
Q5

Is tract 42003563100 considered part of Westwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 42003563100 fall within Westwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 42003563100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 162 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 42003563100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.62% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 42003563100 compare to Pittsburgh overall?

Tract 42003563100 scores 5.4/10, lower than the parent city of Pittsburgh at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 42003563100 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. 15% 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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