Lakewood Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.2/10. Court records carry 295 eviction filings across 11 observed years. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

At $1,677 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Lakewood commands. Filings peaked in 2005 at 7.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $88,644.

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