Waverly Heights Eviction Risk: High , Portland
Tract 41051000101 · Multnomah County, OR · pop 3,187 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 41051000101 covers part of the Waverly Heights area of Portland, OR, and scores 8.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,187 residents. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Portland and the region
Centroid at 45.4611, -122.6560 · click any tract to drill in
Why Waverly Heights scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Waverly Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 27%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 69%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 77Total filings 2020-21
- 1.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.51×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Pittsburgh, PA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Waverly Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Waverly Heights
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.
It sits 0.7 points above the Multnomah County average of 7.4. 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. Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 49% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,777, close to the Portland average.
Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $85,500. 56% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
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