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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 46% Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units2,334
Renter share69.7%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate10.5%
Median income$116,142

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Alaska Junction
Very High
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#75 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Elevated
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#90 of 494 tracts In King County
High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#125 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
10.5% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$2,174 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Alaska Junction compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Alaska Junction risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.08.0This tracttract 010501Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 26

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Alaska Junction. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033010501

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033010501?

Census tract 53033010501 in the Alaska Junction neighborhood scores 8/10 (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 53033010501?

Median gross rent is $2,174/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033010501?

10.5% of residents in tract 53033010501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,500.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033010501?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 2th, minority 39th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 53033010501 considered part of Alaska Junction?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033010501 fall within Alaska Junction (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How does tract 53033010501 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033010501 scores 8/10, right in line with 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.
Q7

Was tract 53033010501 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
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