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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Meridian compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 23%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 51%Grade B
- 45%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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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.
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