Ruston Way Eviction Risk: Moderate , Tacoma

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. 38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Pierce County average of 47.5%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10. At $1,397 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Tacoma commands. The filing record is not thin: 24 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.0% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 1.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $169,773, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.