Within neighborhood
17
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033004600 · King County, WA · pop 3,625 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 53033004600 sits in the Meridian area of Seattle eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 63%
Tract context
Occupied units1,412
Renter share36.5%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$163,056
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
61
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6739, -122.3347 · click any tract to drill in
Why Meridian scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$2,017 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 Meridian compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 18%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 33%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.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 7Total filings over 3 yrs
- 0.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.3%Peak (2007)
- 1Filings in 2009 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 100% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Meridian. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Meridian
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Cost burden runs 32% here against 44.1% across King County.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.2% against 31.5% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7 filings here across 3 tracked years.
The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2007, when 1.3% of renter households were served.
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. In a typical year about 0.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.4/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $163,056, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033004600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033004600?
Census tract 53033004600 in the Meridian neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (Elevated 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 53033004600?
Median gross rent is $2,017/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033004600?
6.8% of residents in tract 53033004600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,625.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033004600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 3th, minority 20th, housing 12th.
Q5
Is tract 53033004600 considered part of Meridian?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033004600 fall within Meridian (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033004600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 7 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 53033004600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.57% of renter households, peaking at 1.3% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033004600 compare to Seattle overall?
Tract 53033004600 scores 7.2/10, lower 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.
Q8
Was tract 53033004600 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Seattle
Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · WA
South Lake Union
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Fairmont Springs
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Rainier Beach
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Japantown
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Little Saigon
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Rainier Vista
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
NewHolly
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Rainier Vista
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Related