Portage Bay Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.6% against 31.5% nationally.

Cost burden runs 37% here against 44.1% across King County. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.0 points above the King County average of 6.7. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 58 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 0.7% 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $138,986, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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