Chambers Plateau Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lakewood

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The voucher gap is 21.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.2/10.

Court records carry 27 eviction filings across 10 observed years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 1.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. 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 1.1 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.