Northeast Tacoma Eviction Risk: Elevated

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $2,138 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Tacoma commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 104 filings here across 11 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 3.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 80th 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.1/10.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Pierce County average of 5.7 closely.

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