Rockton Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against a Kent baseline of 38.4%, 80% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Set annual rent against average household income of $28,159 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.9/10.

This is a renter market: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The filing record is not thin: 261 evictions logged in this tract.

Filing activity peaked in 2002 at 5.3% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 3.7% in 2017 against a 5.3% peak.

At $1,061 a month, rents sit 7% over what the rest of Kent commands. Among the 6 mapped neighborhoods of Kent, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third. For a like-for-like read, University Manor and Southwest Kent score within a fraction of it.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 7.3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.