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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,413 of 84,120 nationally

University Park Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Tract 53033004401 · King County, WA · pop 3,656 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 53033004401 covers part of the University Park area of Seattle, WA, and scores 8.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.5
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 18% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units1,258
Renter share47.1%
SVI overall0.49
Poverty rate19.5%
Median income$136,389

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In University Park
Very Low
Within parent city
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#46 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Elevated
Within county
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#44 of 494 tracts In King County
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#53 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6713, -122.3107 · click any tract to drill in

Why University Park scores 8.5

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
19.5% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,882 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 University Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
University Park risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.58.5This tracttract 004401Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 49

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

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Analysis

What drives eviction risk in University Park

Cost burden runs 62% here against 44.1% across King County. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. It sits 1.8 points above the King County average of 6.7. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

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 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $136,389, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,882, close to the Seattle average. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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 53033004401

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033004401?

Census tract 53033004401 in the University Park neighborhood scores 8.5/10 (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 53033004401?

Median gross rent is $1,882/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033004401?

19.5% of residents in tract 53033004401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,656.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033004401?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 49th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 3th, minority 45th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 53033004401 considered part of University Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033004401 fall within University Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 53033004401 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033004401 scores 8.5/10, higher than 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 53033004401 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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