Kennewick Civic Center Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.6/10. This is renter territory: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $27,224, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Benton County average of 5.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally.

At $953 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Kennewick commands. Disability prevalence runs 43.7% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.