Sprague Union District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Spokane
Tract 53063003000 · Spokane County, WA · pop 2,556 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
In the Sprague Union District area of Spokane, census tract 53063003000 scores 5.5/10 for eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #37,804 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
68% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 40% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $977 monthly, set against $53,686 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Spokane and the region
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Why Sprague Union District scores 7.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sprague Union District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 88%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 55Total filings over 3 yrs
- 4.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2014)
- 10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sprague Union District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Sprague Union District
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 6.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Spokane eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Spokane County average of 5.1 and in line with the Washington statewide average of 5.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 4.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 5.9% of renter households in 2014.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 53063003000
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