Whittier Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 17.0% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Average gross rent is $1,704, 16% below the Seattle average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 46 filings here across 10 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2004 at 1.2% 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 0.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $124,815, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.

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.