West Salem Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 27%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 7.5/10. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 6.1 to 7.3, a 1.2-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

On the softer side is economic stress, at 2.8/10. Court records for this tract carry 238 eviction filings. The worst year on record was 2002, when filings touched 7.8% of renter households.

Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7/10. Recent filings have not receded much: 6.0% in 2016 against a 7.8% peak.

Among the 7 mapped neighborhoods of Salem, it ranks #5 by risk, the lower third. The closest comparables inside the same city are Sunnyslope and South Salem.

Average gross rent runs $1,335, close to the Salem average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $78,511.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.4 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.