Historic Business District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lynden
Tract 53073010302 · Whatcom County, WA · pop 4,757 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 53073010302 sits in the Historic Business District neighborhood of Lynden, Washington eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. That is riskier than about 44% of US census tracts.
About 65% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,491 a month while the average household earns $81,833 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lynden and the region
Centroid at 48.9513, -122.4558 · click any tract to drill in
Why Historic Business District scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Historic Business District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
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)
- 9Total filings over 3 yrs
- 0.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.9%Peak (2015)
- 1Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Historic Business District
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 7.2/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lynden, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Whatcom County average of 5.2 and in line with the Washington statewide average of 5.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 54th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 9 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 0.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 0.9% of renter households in 2015.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 53073010302
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Highest-risk tracts in Lynden
Top eight tracts in Lynden ranked by composite eviction-risk score.