Tract 53073010701 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 53073010701 · Whatcom County, WA · pop 6,333
Tract 53073010701 sits in Whatcom County, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.5/10. Population here is 6,333. Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.4 points.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Whatcom County and the region
Centroid at 48.8825, -122.4248 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 53073010701 scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Tract 53073010701 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%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)
- 16Total filings over 3 yrs
- 1.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2018)
- 9Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Tract 53073010701
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10.
Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 16 filings here across 3 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2018, when 2.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #57,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 18% 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 4.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $108,051, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.4 points cooler.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.