Kennewick Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 7.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Benton County average of 5.2. At $1,439 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Kennewick commands. The filing record is not thin: 1 evictions over 1 years of observation.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.1/10. The worst year on record was 2004, when 1.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 12% 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 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.