Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , Portland

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $1,012 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Portland commands. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $31,338, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, local political climate reads 9/10.

This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Cost burden runs 61% here against 49.7% across Multnomah County.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Against the Multnomah County average of 7.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the OR average is 6.1, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.