Ruston Way Eviction Risk: Moderate , Tacoma

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 30 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.2% of renter households.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Tacoma. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 0.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $140,038, annual rent is just 15%.

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.