Seward Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033010200 · King County, WA · pop 5,253 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 53033010200 covers part of the Seward Park area of Seattle, WA, and scores 6.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,253. Cost burden runs 15% here against 44.1% across King County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5565, -122.2517 · click any tract to drill in
Why Seward Park scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Seward Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 16%Grade A
- 25%Grade B
- 26%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
- 56Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.2%Peak (2010)
- 2Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Seward Park
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Average gross rent is $2,581, 27% above the Seattle average. Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 56 evictions over 10 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2010 at 3.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Seattle. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
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.
About tract 53033010200
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