Westwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pittsburgh
Tract 42003563100 · Allegheny County, PA · pop 3,491 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
For landlords sizing up Westwood in Pittsburgh, census tract 42003563100 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 33% of renter households, a high level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $996 a month against an average household income of $71,009 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. About 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 4.4
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
The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Pittsburgh eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Allegheny County average of 5.6 and in line with the Pennsylvania statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 43rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 162 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 5.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 7.1% of renter households in 2004.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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