Phinney Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033004800 · King County, WA · pop 5,110 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 53033004800 sits in the Phinney Ridge area of Seattle eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.9/10. Population here is 5,110. 25% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the King County average of 44.1%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6608, -122.3602 · click any tract to drill in
Why Phinney Ridge scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Phinney Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 9%Grade B
- 70%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.
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)
- 50Total filings over 10 yrs
- 0.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.2%Peak (2005)
- 2Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Phinney Ridge
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 15.5% against 31.5% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 50 filings here across 10 tracked years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. At $2,233 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Seattle commands.
The worst year on record was 2005, when 1.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.2/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 53033004800
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