Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the King County average of 44.1%. Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally.

Court records carry 20 eviction filings across 10 observed years. Filings peaked in 2010 at 0.5% 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 0.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #13,349 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 3.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $145,089, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.