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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

Meridian Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Tract 53033003601 · King County, WA · pop 3,641 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 53033003601 sits in the Meridian area of Seattle eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. It is home to 3,641 residents. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 30% Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,896
Renter share52.1%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate10.0%
Median income$117,375

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 7 tracts In Meridian
Very High
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#75 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Elevated
Within county
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#114 of 494 tracts In King County
High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#125 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6749, -122.3260 · click any tract to drill in

Why Meridian scores 8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
10.0% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$2,056 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Meridian compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Meridian risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.08.0This tracttract 003601Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 41

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Meridian. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Meridian

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.3 points above the King County average of 6.7.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $2,056, 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033003601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033003601?

Census tract 53033003601 in the Meridian neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 53033003601?

Median gross rent is $2,056/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033003601?

10.0% of residents in tract 53033003601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,641.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033003601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 23th, household 45th, minority 33th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 53033003601 considered part of Meridian?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033003601 fall within Meridian (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 53033003601 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033003601 scores 8/10, right in line with 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.
Q7

Was tract 53033003601 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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