Sunset Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

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

Against King County at 44.1%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Seattle. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the King County average of 6.7 closely. Average gross rent is $2,172, close to the Seattle average.

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.