Mount Vernon Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Skagit County average of 5.4 closely. Average gross rent is $1,452, close to the Mount Vernon average.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $71,579.

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