South Lake Union Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Cost burden runs 28% here against 44.1% across King County. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10. 96% 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.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 15.9% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the King County average of 6.7 closely.

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