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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Dixon Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 62%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 124Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.11×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Dixon Village. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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