South Waterfront Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,977, 19% above the Portland average. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 0.6 points below the Multnomah County average of 7.4.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $120,631.

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