Mayfair Eviction Risk: High , Washington

At $743 a month, rents run 62% under what the rest of Washington commands. The score leans hardest on state political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10. SNAP participation runs 30.6% against 15.2% nationally.

67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Against the District of Columbia average of 8.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 496 filings here across 7 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2010, when 22.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 13.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $56,696, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.