Alaska Junction Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033010501 · King County, WA · pop 4,500 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 53033010501 covers part of the Alaska Junction area of Seattle, WA, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5576, -122.3801 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alaska Junction scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Alaska Junction compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 16%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%Grade B
- 0%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Alaska Junction
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.
Against King County at 44.1%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened. 70% 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.
Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 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. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent is $2,174, close to the Seattle average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $116,142.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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