Silver Beach Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bellingham

Average gross rent is $2,362, 50% above the Bellingham average. The voucher gap is 43.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Running hot, supply constraint reads 9.4/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 5 filings here across 3 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 0.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.

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.