West Campus Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033005201 · King County, WA · pop 3,697 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 53033005201 covers part of the West Campus area of Seattle, WA, and scores 8.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,697. 36% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6596, -122.3246 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Campus scores 8.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Campus compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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
- 85%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 7%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
Within West Campus. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in West Campus
Cost burden runs 60% here against 44.1% across King County. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. It sits 1.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally.
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 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,869, close to the Seattle average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $113,298.
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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