Bridgeport Terrace Eviction Risk: Elevated , University Place

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 179 filings here across 11 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 4.4% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Tacoma. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 51% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $1,808, close to the University Place average.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $86,484. 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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