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

Dixon Village Eviction Risk: High , Tacoma

Tract 53053062901 · Pierce County, WA · pop 4,114 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

With a score of 8.4/10, tract 53053062901 in the Dixon Village area of Tacoma, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,114 residents. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43% Stable renters 39% Owners 18%
Tract context
Occupied units1,977
Renter share82.2%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate25.6%
Median income$57,710

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Dixon Village
Very High
Within parent city
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 50 tracts In Tacoma
Very High
Within county
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#8 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 Tacoma and the region

Centroid at 47.2127, -122.4784 · click any tract to drill in

Why Dixon Village scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
25.6% poverty · this tract
6.4
Supply constraint
$1,524 rent vs county FMR
2.4
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 Dixon Village compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Dixon Village risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0629017.0Tacomaparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 76

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 124Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.11×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near 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 Dixon Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Dixon Village

It sits 2.7 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7. This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Against Pierce County at 47.5%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened. At $1,524 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Tacoma commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. 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 7.8/10, 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. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $57,710.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 53053062901

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053062901?

Census tract 53053062901 in the Dixon Village 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 53053062901?

Median gross rent is $1,524/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53053062901?

25.6% of residents in tract 53053062901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,114.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53053062901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 54th, minority 71th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 53053062901 considered part of Dixon Village?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053062901 fall within Dixon Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 53053062901 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.11× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q7

How does tract 53053062901 compare to Tacoma overall?

Tract 53053062901 scores 8.4/10, 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.
Q8

Was tract 53053062901 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

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

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