Emerson Eviction Risk: Moderate , Spokane

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.2/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

At $892 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Spokane commands. Cost burden runs 40% here against 45.2% across Spokane County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 29 filings here across 3 tracked years.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 3/10. The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.8% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 3.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $76,569, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Spokane 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.