Lakeway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bellingham

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,439 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Bellingham commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $126,912, annual rent is just 14%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 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.