Houghton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kirkland

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.3/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. It sits 1.1 points below the King County average of 6.7. Cost burden runs 40% here against 44.1% across King County.

Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $2,265, close to the Kirkland average. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $146,970.

49% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.