International District Eviction Risk: High , Lakewood

Against Pierce County at 47.5%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

It sits 2.3 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7. Set annual rent against average income of $52,044 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.7/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 443 evictions over 11 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.