Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,433 of 84,120 nationally
Salishan Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tacoma
Tract 53053062300 · Pierce County, WA · pop 5,946 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 53053062300 covers part of the Salishan area of Tacoma, WA, and scores 7.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units2,184
Renter share23.2%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate11.5%
Median income$82,679
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
87
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Tacoma and the region
Centroid at 47.2142, -122.4168 · click any tract to drill in
Why Salishan scores 7.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Tacoma
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
11.5% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,706 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Tacoma
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5
How Salishan compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 46%Grade C
- 4%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.
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)
- 189Total filings over 11 yrs
- 3.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2004)
- 12Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 11 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 49Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.85×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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 Salishan. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Salishan
It sits 2.0 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 7.8/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.5/10. Cost burden runs 53% here against 47.5% across Pierce County.
The filing record is not thin: 189 evictions over 11 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2004, when 5.4% 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 23% 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 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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 53053062300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053062300?
Census tract 53053062300 in the Salishan neighborhood scores 7.7/10 (Elevated 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 53053062300?
Median gross rent is $1,706/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53053062300?
11.5% of residents in tract 53053062300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,946.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53053062300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 68th, minority 67th, housing 54th.
Q5
Is tract 53053062300 considered part of Salishan?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053062300 fall within Salishan (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053062300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 189 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 53053062300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.71% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 53053062300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.85× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8
How does tract 53053062300 compare to Tacoma overall?
Tract 53053062300 scores 7.7/10, higher than the parent city of Tacoma at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Tacoma eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 53053062300 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. 4% 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.
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8.4
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8.4
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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8.4
/ 10 · High
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