Japantown Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

It sits 2.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. 96% 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. Average gross rent is $1,271, 37% below the Seattle average.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $39,117, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against King County at 44.1%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 300 filings here across 10 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 3.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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