Sumas Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.

At $1,306 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Sumas commands. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $96,204, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.