Pacific Avenue Eviction Risk: High , Tacoma

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is local political climate at 7.8/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 183 filings here across 11 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 3.2% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 47% of renters.

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