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Arbor Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Tract 53033012000 · King County, WA · pop 3,308 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi

With a score of 7.4/10, tract 53033012000 in the Arbor Heights area of Seattle, WA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10.

Risk score
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 11% Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,482
Renter share17.9%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate4.8%
Median income$117,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Arbor Heights
Very High
Within parent city
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#105 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Moderate
Within county
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#163 of 494 tracts In King County
Elevated
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#316 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.5129, -122.3806 · click any tract to drill in

Why Arbor Heights scores 7.4

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
4.8% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$2,531 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 Arbor Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Arbor Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.47.4This tracttract 012000Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 6

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

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)

  • 38Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 1.39%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.9%Peak (2006)
  • 3Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 530330120002004: 4 filings (1.48/100 renter HHs)2005: 5 filings (1.60/100 renter HHs)2006: 6 filings (1.92/100 renter HHs)2007: 5 filings (1.60/100 renter HHs)2008: 4 filings (1.28/100 renter HHs)2009: 4 filings (1.28/100 renter HHs)2010: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2011: 4 filings (1.33/100 renter HHs)2012: 3 filings (1.00/100 renter HHs)2013: 3 filings (1.00/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Arbor Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Arbor Heights

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $2,531 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally.

Against King County at 44.1%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 38 evictions over 9 years of observation. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 1.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.5 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033012000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033012000?

Census tract 53033012000 in the Arbor Heights neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (Elevated 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 53033012000?

Median gross rent is $2,531/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033012000?

4.8% of residents in tract 53033012000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,308.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033012000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 40th, minority 26th, housing 5th.
Q5

Is tract 53033012000 considered part of Arbor Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033012000 fall within Arbor Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033012000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 38 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 53033012000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.39% of renter households, peaking at 1.9% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53033012000 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033012000 scores 7.4/10, lower than 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Seattle

Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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