Kennewick Civic Center Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 42.8% across Benton County. This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $38,764, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Benton County average of 5.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 7.7/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.2% against 11.3% nationally.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.1/10.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,257, close to the Kennewick 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.