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Neighborhood · Ranked #4,622 of 84,120 nationally

Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Tract 53033008900 · King County, WA · pop 6,117 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

Census tract 53033008900 covers part of the Little Saigon area of Seattle, WA, and scores 8.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,117. The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score
8.8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 22% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units2,780
Renter share40.9%
SVI overall0.47
Poverty rate13.8%
Median income$102,556

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 8 tracts In Little Saigon
Elevated
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 177 tracts In Seattle
High
Within county
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#36 of 494 tracts In King County
Very High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#33 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6010, -122.2852 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little Saigon scores 8.8

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
13.8% poverty · this tract
3.4
Supply constraint
$2,073 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 Little Saigon compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Little Saigon risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.88.8This tracttract 008900Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 47

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 195Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 1.99%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.4%Peak (2006)
  • 15Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 530330089002004: 20 filings (2.14/100 renter HHs)2005: 23 filings (2.37/100 renter HHs)2006: 33 filings (3.40/100 renter HHs)2007: 28 filings (2.88/100 renter HHs)2008: 21 filings (2.16/100 renter HHs)2009: 10 filings (1.03/100 renter HHs)2010: 15 filings (1.60/100 renter HHs)2011: 14 filings (1.33/100 renter HHs)2012: 16 filings (1.52/100 renter HHs)2013: 15 filings (1.42/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Little Saigon. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Little Saigon

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. It sits 2.1 points above the King County average of 6.7. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 195 eviction filings across 10 observed years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.4% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.

Average gross rent is $2,073, close to the Seattle average.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033008900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033008900?

Census tract 53033008900 in the Little Saigon neighborhood scores 8.8/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 53033008900?

Median gross rent is $2,073/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033008900?

13.8% of residents in tract 53033008900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,117.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033008900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 47th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 61th, minority 62th, housing 57th.
Q5

Is tract 53033008900 considered part of Little Saigon?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033008900 fall within Little Saigon (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033008900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 195 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033008900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.99% of renter households, peaking at 3.4% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53033008900 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033008900 scores 8.8/10, 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.
Q8

Was tract 53033008900 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 39% 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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