Licton Springs Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033002700 · King County, WA · pop 6,141 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 53033002700 sits in the Licton Springs area of Seattle eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7/10. It is home to 6,141 residents. Average gross rent is $3,238, 60% above the Seattle average.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6869, -122.3311 · click any tract to drill in
Why Licton Springs scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Licton Springs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 99%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 27Total filings over 10 yrs
- 0.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.2%Peak (2005)
- 1Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Licton Springs. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Licton Springs
29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the King County average of 44.1%. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.0% against 31.5% nationally.
The voucher gap is 21.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 27 filings here across 10 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2005, when 1.2% 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 53033002700
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