Whittier Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 14.6% against 31.5% nationally.

This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $128,105, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 40% of renters.

It tracks the King County average of 6.7 closely. Average gross rent is $1,914, close to the Seattle average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.