Birch Bay Eviction Risk: Lower

The voucher gap is 39.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.5 points.

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. 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 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $101,402.

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.