Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally
Whittier Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033002800 · King County, WA · pop 4,957 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 53033002800 covers part of the Whittier Heights area of Seattle, WA, and scores 7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,957 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units2,381
Renter share38.3%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate4.5%
Median income$142,813
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
55
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6851, -122.3499 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whittier Heights scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
4.5% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$2,221 rent vs county FMR
3.3
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 Whittier Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
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.
- 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.
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)
- 58Total filings over 10 yrs
- 0.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2005)
- 7Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 17% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Whittier Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Whittier Heights
31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the King County average of 44.1%. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.6% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Court records carry 58 eviction filings across 10 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $2,221, 9% above the Seattle average.
Filings peaked in 2005 at 1.1% of renter households. 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033002800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033002800?
Census tract 53033002800 in the Whittier Heights 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 53033002800?
Median gross rent is $2,221/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033002800?
4.5% of residents in tract 53033002800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,957.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033002800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 2th, minority 44th, housing 38th.
Q5
Is tract 53033002800 considered part of Whittier Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033002800 fall within Whittier Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033002800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 58 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033002800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.68% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033002800 compare to Seattle overall?
Tract 53033002800 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 53033002800 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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