Forest Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Bellingham

33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 34 filings here across 3 tracked years. At $1,387 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Bellingham commands.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 1.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $96,426, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Whatcom County average of 5.9 closely.

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