Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.0% against 31.5% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Average gross rent is $1,805, 11% below the Seattle average.

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. Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.5/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.