Braddock District Court

District 05-2-09 serves Braddock Borough, Braddock Hills Borough, Swissvale Borough, and Rankin Borough. This area is among the economically poorest in the Pittsburgh area, especially Rankin, which ironically doesn`t have a severely high crime rate, unlike Braddock. All four boroughs are predominately residential, but at one point Braddock was a major industrial center, home of Andrew Carnegie`s first steel mill and the first A&P supermarket. It has a profound history dating back to the Colonial Era, all the way up through its glory days when the steel mill industry was booming, which is best encapsulated in the historical novel “Out of This Furnace” by Thomas Bell. But now destitution and crime lies heavy in the hills of Braddock.