Ferndale Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is court filing pressure at 1.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.

Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.9/10. Court records carry 19 eviction filings across 3 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2018, when 1.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 8% 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 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $120,242, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,449, close to the Ferndale average.

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.