South Lake Union Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 16.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters. Average gross rent is $2,185, close to the Seattle average.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $106,736.

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