Central Business District Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

89% 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. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

Disability prevalence runs 15.6% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Average gross rent is $2,305, 14% above the Seattle average.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. Nationally it ranks #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $125,819.

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