St. Helens Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. It sits 1.5 points below the Columbia County average of 4.9.

At $1,124 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of St. Helens commands. The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 7.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 12 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10.

Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $111,169, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 2.7 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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