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Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally

Wedgwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Tract 53033002100 · King County, WA · pop 4,770 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

53033002100 is a census tract in the Wedgwood area of Seattle, WA. It scores 7/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,770 residents. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 22% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units2,070
Renter share40.5%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate5.0%
Median income$137,857

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Wedgwood
Moderate
Within parent city
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#139 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Low
Within county
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#215 of 494 tracts In King County
Elevated
Within state
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#487 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6954, -122.2980 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wedgwood scores 7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Seattle
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
5.0% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,889 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Seattle
8.5

How Wedgwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wedgwood risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.07.0This tracttract 002100Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 18

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Eviction filings

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 56Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 1.18%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.0%Peak (2009)
  • 3Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 530330021002004: 7 filings (1.46/100 renter HHs)2005: 6 filings (1.35/100 renter HHs)2006: 5 filings (1.13/100 renter HHs)2007: 3 filings (0.68/100 renter HHs)2008: 7 filings (1.58/100 renter HHs)2009: 9 filings (2.03/100 renter HHs)2010: 3 filings (0.58/100 renter HHs)2011: 5 filings (0.94/100 renter HHs)2012: 8 filings (1.51/100 renter HHs)2013: 3 filings (0.57/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 57% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Wedgwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Wedgwood

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 56 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Against average income of $137,857, annual rent is just 16%.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033002100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033002100?

Census tract 53033002100 in the Wedgwood neighborhood scores 7/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 53033002100?

Median gross rent is $1,889/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033002100?

5.0% of residents in tract 53033002100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,770.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033002100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 4th, minority 42th, housing 58th.
Q5

Is tract 53033002100 considered part of Wedgwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033002100 fall within Wedgwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033002100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 56 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033002100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.18% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53033002100 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033002100 scores 7/10, lower than the parent city of Seattle at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 53033002100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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