Pacific Avenue Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tacoma

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Against Pierce County at 47.5%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $71,415, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Average gross rent is $2,167, 29% above the Tacoma average. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 24% 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. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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