Neighborhood · Ranked #5,153 of 84,120 nationally

Central Business District Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Tract 53033008401 · King County, WA · pop 3,214 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 8.6/10, tract 53033008401 in the Central Business District area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,214. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score

8.6

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 58% Owners 10%

Tract context

Occupied units2,532

Renter share90.5%

SVI overall0.58

Poverty rate13.9%

Median income$107,050

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6124, -122.3226 · click any tract to drill in

Why Central Business District scores 8.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Seattle

9.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.6

State political climate

Washington legislature & governorship

6.0

Economic stress

13.9% poverty · this tract

3.5

Supply constraint

$2,079 rent vs county FMR

2.8

Rent control risk

Inherited from Seattle

9.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

8.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Seattle

9.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Seattle

8.5

How Central Business District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 58

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

53%Socioeconomic
16%Household composition
63%Racial/ethnic minority
82%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
9%Grade C
70%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Central Business District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Central Business District

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 36% here against 44.1% across King County.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 94% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $2,079, close to the Seattle average.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $107,050.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 53033008401

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033008401?

Census tract 53033008401 in the Central Business District neighborhood scores 8.6/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 53033008401?

Median gross rent is $2,079/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033008401?

13.9% of residents in tract 53033008401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,214.

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033008401?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 16th, minority 63th, housing 82th.

Is tract 53033008401 considered part of Central Business District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033008401 fall within Central Business District (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How does tract 53033008401 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033008401 scores 8.6/10, higher than the parent city of Seattle at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 53033008401 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 70% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

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