Mexican War Streets Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

It sits 2.3 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 7.8/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 40.6% across Allegheny County.

On the high side, economic stress reads 7/10. At $1,150 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $65,328.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.