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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Waverly Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Milwaukie

Tract 41005020800 · Clackamas County, OR · pop 4,351 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 7.3/10, tract 41005020800 in the Waverly Heights area of Milwaukie, OR reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,351 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.3/10.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 23% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units2,142
Renter share58.0%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate7.0%
Median income$68,179

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Waverly Heights
Very High
Within parent city
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 6 tracts In Milwaukie
Elevated
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 87 tracts In Clackamas County
High
Within state
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#215 of 994 tracts In Oregon
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukie and the region

Centroid at 45.4476, -122.6392 · click any tract to drill in

Why Waverly Heights scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Milwaukie
8.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Oregon legislature & governorship
7.2
Economic stress
7.0% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,483 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Milwaukie
8.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Milwaukie
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Milwaukie
6.0

How Waverly Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Waverly Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0208006.5Milwaukieparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county6.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 64

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 259Total filings over 6 yrs
  • 3.49%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.8%Peak (2008)
  • 31Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2007 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 41005020800
Filings dropped 38% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Waverly Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Waverly Heights

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Clackamas County average of 5.6.

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Clackamas County average of 50.1%. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10. The filing record is not thin: 259 evictions over 6 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 4.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.8/10.

Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,483, close to the Milwaukie average.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 41005020800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 41005020800?

Census tract 41005020800 in the Waverly Heights neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 41005020800?

Median gross rent is $1,483/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 41005020800?

7.0% of residents in tract 41005020800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,351.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 41005020800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 52th, minority 40th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 41005020800 considered part of Waverly Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 41005020800 fall within Waverly Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 41005020800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 259 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 41005020800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.49% of renter households, peaking at 4.8% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 41005020800 compare to Milwaukie overall?

Tract 41005020800 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Milwaukie at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Milwaukie eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 41005020800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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