Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033007902 · King County, WA · pop 3,843 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
With a score of 8.1/10, tract 53033007902 in the Little Saigon area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,843. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6144, -122.3057 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Saigon scores 8.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Saigon compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 28
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 95%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Little Saigon
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.
This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Disability prevalence runs 16.3% against 31.5% nationally. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
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 #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.6/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Average gross rent is $2,037, close to the Seattle average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $110,586.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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