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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Oakridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 66
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 6%Grade C
- 0%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.
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)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 280Total filings 2020-21
- 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.35×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Oakridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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