Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $62,443, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. 78% 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.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 106 filings here across 10 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2005 at 1.9% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

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