Within neighborhood
43
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally
Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033009400 · King County, WA · pop 6,382 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 8.4/10, tract 53033009400 in the Little Saigon area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,382. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10.
Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units3,322
Renter share55.9%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate8.5%
Median income$94,185
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
90
th percentile
Very High
Within state
97
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5881, -122.3100 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Saigon scores 8.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
8.5% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,618 rent vs county FMR
1.1
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.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 66
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%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
- 4%Grade B
- 9%Grade C
- 87%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.
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)
- 169Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2007)
- 9Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 53% 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
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.
Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,618, 20% below the Seattle average. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
The filing record is not thin: 169 evictions over 10 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2007 at 2.3% 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033009400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033009400?
Census tract 53033009400 in the Little Saigon neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 53033009400?
Median gross rent is $1,618/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033009400?
8.5% of residents in tract 53033009400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,382.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033009400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 60th, minority 73th, housing 77th.
Q5
Is tract 53033009400 considered part of Little Saigon?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033009400 fall within Little Saigon (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033009400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 169 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033009400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.34% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033009400 compare to Seattle overall?
Tract 53033009400 scores 8.4/10, 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 53033009400 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. 87% 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
Highest-risk tracts in Seattle
Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · WA
Kenwood
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Pinehurst
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Little Saigon
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
South Park
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
West Campus
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Chinatown
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
East Campus
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
Tract · WA
Japantown
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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