University District Eviction Risk: High , Portland

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $47,313, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.7 points above the Multnomah County average of 7.4. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Multnomah County average of 49.7%.

At $1,370 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Portland commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Portland. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.