Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Top Hat Eviction Risk: High , White Center
Tract 53033026500 · King County, WA · pop 4,474 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 8/10, tract 53033026500 in the Top Hat area of White Center, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,474 residents. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,622
Renter share55.9%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate23.1%
Median income$66,932
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
84
th percentile
High
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across White Center and the region
Centroid at 47.5130, -122.3382 · click any tract to drill in
Why Top Hat scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from White Center
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
23.1% poverty · this tract
5.8
Supply constraint
$1,480 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from White Center
8.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from White Center
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from White Center
7.7
How Top Hat compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 5%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.
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)
- 100Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.5%Peak (2013)
- 15Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 114% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Top Hat. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Top Hat
Cost burden runs 55% here against 44.1% across King County. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10.
The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.3 points above the King County average of 6.7.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 100 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.5% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 1.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,480, close to the White Center average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $66,932.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033026500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033026500?
Census tract 53033026500 in the Top Hat 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 53033026500?
Median gross rent is $1,480/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033026500?
23.1% of residents in tract 53033026500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,474.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033026500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 88th, minority 80th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 53033026500 considered part of Top Hat?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033026500 fall within Top Hat (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033026500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 100 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033026500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.47% of renter households, peaking at 1.5% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033026500 compare to White Center overall?
Tract 53033026500 scores 8/10, higher than the parent city of White Center at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from White Center; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 53033026500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 5% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in White Center
Top eight tracts in White Center ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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