JSG

Guangrui Wang - [email protected]

Jenny Lee - [email protected]

Seon Min Cho - [email protected]

Poverty Status :

https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-american-community-survey-2014-miscellaneous-data/resource/7996d143-c155-466e-8414-115f74997dd7

Employment Status:

https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-american-community-survey-2014-miscellaneous-data/resource/d53bfc16-9518-4c5b-b102-847654dabe21

Property Value: https://data.wprdc.org/datastore/dump/5bbe6c55-bce6-4edb-9d04-68edeb6bf7b1

We used the datasets provided by the WPRDC, we determined the following metrics to measure the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh:

• Poverty rate
• Employment rate
• Property values

The poverty rate would be a reflection of many things in a neighborhood, like public funding. The employment rate is important because no one wants a long commute to work, so if a neighborhood had high employment rates, then there are jobs nearby. Property values were included because it represents the overall living conditions/neighbors based off of financial status.

We defined the best neighborhood as the neighborhood with a best economic that repeated in these three analysis.

Which is the neighborhood have lowest poverty rate, highest employment rate and highest property value

After the analysis, I find Northview Heights has the highest poverty rate. Since I am not originally from Pittsburgh. I don't have much experience with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods. So, I searched for information about Northview Heights and other neighborhoods. The best neighborhood in my research is Swisshelm Park, which has the lowest poverty rate. I searched for houses on sale on Zillow. I found that Swisshelm Park has six houses on sale with the price interval from $650,000 to $209,000. But, Northview Heights have zero houses on sale. This made me think about why this happened. Then I searched Northview Heights on wiki. I found that nearly all (96.3%) of the occupied units were rental housing in Northview Heights area. That approved my analysis. With the highest poverty rate, people cannot afford to buy a house, So people choose to rent. I believe that the neighborhood with a high poverty rate, and people mostly don't own their own house property. People won't be happy to live in a place like this. Looking back to Swisshelm Park, Swisshelm Park has the lowest poverty rate and rich entertainment facilities. I think people will be more likely to choose to live in Swisshelm Park.

Excluding the business districts, the best neighborhood was Fairywood. Guangrui's best neighborhood was Swisshelm Park, which was #36 based on my metric. Seonmin's best neighborhood was North Fayette, which was not within the dataset I chose. Employment rate can vary by many factors, but generalizing for the purposes of this project, employment rate can mean oppurtunities. Oppurtunities to advance a career, start a new one, and a place with high employment rates almost always enjoy higher quality amneities.

Based on the results of my analysis, North Fayette is the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh as they have the highest average property value based on property sales made from years 2012 to 2020. Property values explicitly represent the monetary worth of properties and can also reflect on the quality of life of the said property as the value directly correlates with demand.

North Shore is the best overall neighborhood. By looking at our individual findings, we found the best neighborhood that we had in common.