Wilkes Eviction Risk: High , Portland

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Multnomah County average of 49.7%. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $68,051, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 1.7 points above the Multnomah County average of 7.4. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 1,515 evictions over 16 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,823, 10% above the Portland average.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 21.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 14.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.