Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Maplewood Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 53053072506 · Pierce County, WA · pop 3,917 · 71% of tract blocks fall in Maplewood
With a score of 3.6/10, tract 53053072506 in Maplewood, WA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Against Pierce County at 47.5%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 86%
Tract context
Occupied units1,639
Renter share13.5%
SVI overall0.11
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$130,098
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
12
th percentile
Very Low
National
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Maplewood and the region
Centroid at 47.3689, -122.5483 · click any tract to drill in
Why Maplewood scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Maplewood
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,819 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Maplewood
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Maplewood
3.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Maplewood
5.6
How Maplewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 15%Socioeconomic
- 14%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 23Total filings over 9 yrs
- 1.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2013)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 50% over the past 11 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 3Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.69×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Maplewood
It sits 2.1 points below the Pierce County average of 5.7. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.1/10. Court records carry 23 eviction filings across 9 observed years.
Average gross rent is $1,819, 9% below the Maplewood average. The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2/10.
Against average income of $130,098, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.3 points cooler.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 53053072506
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053072506?
Census tract 53053072506 in Maplewood scores 3.6/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 53053072506?
Median gross rent is $1,819/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53053072506?
8.2% of residents in tract 53053072506 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,917.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53053072506?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 14th, minority 20th, housing 22th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053072506?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 23 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 53053072506 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.43% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 53053072506 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.69× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 53053072506 compare to Maplewood overall?
Tract 53053072506 scores 3.6/10, lower than the parent city of Maplewood at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Maplewood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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