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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Oakridge Eviction Risk: High , Fircrest

Tract 53053061002 · Pierce County, WA · pop 4,713 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 8.4/10, tract 53053061002 in the Oakridge area of Tacoma, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,713. It sits 2.7 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 29% Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units2,512
Renter share59.3%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate12.3%
Median income$53,855

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Oakridge
Very High
Within parent city
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 50 tracts In Fircrest
High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 193 tracts In Pierce County
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#59 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fircrest and the region

Centroid at 47.2462, -122.5224 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oakridge scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Fircrest
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
12.3% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$1,394 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fircrest
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fircrest
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fircrest
7.5

How Oakridge compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oakridge risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0610024.5Fircrestparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 66

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 462Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 2.68%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.4%Peak (2004)
  • 42Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 53053061002
Filings dropped 19% over the past 11 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 280Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.35×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oakridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oakridge

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.8/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

At $1,394 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Tacoma commands. Court records carry 462 eviction filings across 11 observed years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 3.4% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53053061002

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053061002?

Census tract 53053061002 in the Oakridge neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (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 53053061002?

Median gross rent is $1,394/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53053061002?

12.3% of residents in tract 53053061002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,713.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53053061002?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 54th, minority 52th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 53053061002 considered part of Oakridge?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053061002 fall within Oakridge (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053061002?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 462 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 53053061002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.68% of renter households, peaking at 3.4% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 53053061002 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.35× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 53053061002 compare to Fircrest overall?

Tract 53053061002 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of Fircrest at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fircrest; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 53053061002 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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 Fircrest

Top eight tracts in Fircrest ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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