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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,382 of 84,120 nationally

Brighton Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Tract 53033011101 · King County, WA · pop 5,069 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 8.1/10, tract 53033011101 in the Brighton area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score
8.1
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 29% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units2,005
Renter share60.3%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate4.6%
Median income$91,284

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Brighton
Moderate
Within parent city
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#70 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Elevated
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#78 of 494 tracts In King County
High
Within state
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#115 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.5395, -122.2773 · click any tract to drill in

Why Brighton scores 8.1

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
4.6% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$1,884 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Brighton compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Brighton risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.18.1This tracttract 011101Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 64

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 157Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.8%Peak (2011)
  • 18Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 530330111012004: 12 filings (2.09/100 renter HHs)2005: 13 filings (2.19/100 renter HHs)2006: 21 filings (3.54/100 renter HHs)2007: 17 filings (2.87/100 renter HHs)2008: 11 filings (1.85/100 renter HHs)2009: 13 filings (2.19/100 renter HHs)2010: 10 filings (1.55/100 renter HHs)2011: 25 filings (2.81/100 renter HHs)2012: 17 filings (1.91/100 renter HHs)2013: 18 filings (2.02/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 50% over the past 10 months.
Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Brighton

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the King County average of 44.1%. It sits 1.4 points above the King County average of 6.7.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 157 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 2.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 53033011101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033011101?

Census tract 53033011101 in the Brighton neighborhood scores 8.1/10 (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 53033011101?

Median gross rent is $1,884/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033011101?

4.6% of residents in tract 53033011101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,069.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033011101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 47th, minority 79th, housing 82th.
Q5

Is tract 53033011101 considered part of Brighton?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033011101 fall within Brighton (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033011101?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 157 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033011101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.30% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53033011101 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033011101 scores 8.1/10, 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.
Q8

Was tract 53033011101 historically redlined?

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