Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.7% against 31.5% nationally. Against King County at 44.1%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened.

At $2,402 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 13 filings here across 8 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points above the King County average of 6.7.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 0.8% of renter households were served. 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. In a typical year about 0.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $183,235, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.