Ruston Way Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tacoma

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

At $1,314 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Tacoma commands. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 148 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2004 at 1.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $101,771, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.