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Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Northeast Tacoma Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 53053940011 · Pierce County, WA · pop 4,429 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 53053940011 covers part of the Northeast Tacoma area of Tacoma, WA, and scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Average gross rent is $2,435, 45% above the Tacoma average.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 4% Owners 94%
Tract context
Occupied units1,692
Renter share6.2%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate3.7%
Median income$151,591

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Northeast Tacoma
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#50 of 50 tracts In Tacoma
Very Low
Within county
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#102 of 193 tracts In Pierce County
Moderate
Within state
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#986 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Tacoma and the region

Centroid at 47.3011, -122.4160 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northeast Tacoma scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Tacoma
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
3.7% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,435 rent vs county FMR
6.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Tacoma
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5

How Northeast Tacoma compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northeast Tacoma risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 9400117.0Tacomaparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 32Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 2.59%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.4%Peak (2008)
  • 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 53053940011
Filings dropped 25% over the past 11 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 6Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.41×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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

Within Northeast Tacoma. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northeast Tacoma

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Cost burden runs 35% here against 47.5% across Pierce County. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10. The voucher gap is 18.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 32 evictions over 10 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2008, when 4.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 6% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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 53053940011

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053940011?

Census tract 53053940011 in the Northeast Tacoma neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate 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 53053940011?

Median gross rent is $2,435/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53053940011?

3.7% of residents in tract 53053940011 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,429.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53053940011?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 31th, minority 50th, housing 21th.
Q5

Is tract 53053940011 considered part of Northeast Tacoma?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053940011 fall within Northeast Tacoma (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053940011?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 32 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53053940011 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.59% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 53053940011 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.41× 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.
Q8

How does tract 53053940011 compare to Tacoma overall?

Tract 53053940011 scores 5.6/10, lower than the parent city of Tacoma at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Tacoma eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Tacoma

Top eight tracts in Tacoma ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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