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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.

Risk score
8.3
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38% Stable renters 26% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,758
Renter share63.9%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate12.1%
Median income$113,298

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In West Campus
Very Low
Within parent city
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#54 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Elevated
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#53 of 494 tracts In King County
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#86 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
12.1% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,869 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 West Campus compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
West Campus risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.38.3This tracttract 005201Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 46

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within West Campus. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033005201

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033005201?

Census tract 53033005201 in the West Campus neighborhood scores 8.3/10 (High 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 53033005201?

Median gross rent is $1,869/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033005201?

12.1% of residents in tract 53033005201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,697.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033005201?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 4th, minority 62th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 53033005201 considered part of West Campus?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033005201 fall within West Campus (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 53033005201 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033005201 scores 8.3/10, higher 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.
Q7

Was tract 53033005201 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. 7% 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.
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