Roosevelt Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033003602 · King County, WA · pop 4,171 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 8.3/10, tract 53033003602 in the Roosevelt area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,171 residents. What pushes it up most 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 47.6801, -122.3218 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roosevelt scores 8.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Roosevelt compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%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
- 76%Grade B
- 8%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.
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What drives eviction risk in Roosevelt
87% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.6% against 31.5% nationally.
19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.
That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 42% of renters.
Average gross rent is $2,043, close to the Seattle average. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $100,954.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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