Fauntleroy Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033011601 · King County, WA · pop 3,361 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 53033011601 covers part of the Fauntleroy area of Seattle, WA, and scores 7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,361 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5236, -122.3885 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fauntleroy scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fauntleroy compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 16%Household composition
- 42%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%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
- 94%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.
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What drives eviction risk in Fauntleroy
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.
around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the King County average of 44.1%. Disability prevalence runs 18.2% against 31.5% nationally.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.0% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,842, 9% below the Seattle average.
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. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $164,157, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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