South Lake Union Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 15.2% against 31.5% nationally. Cost burden runs around a third here against 44.1% across King County.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 74 evictions over 10 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the King County average of 6.7.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 0.7% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.