West Kelso Eviction Risk: Elevated , Longview

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.

Against the Cowlitz County average of 5.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 142 evictions over 11 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 1.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,056, close to the Longview average.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $55,402. 62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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