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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow University Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 49
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%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
- 82%Grade B
- 0%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 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.
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