Downtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Prosser

It sits 2.0 points above the Benton County average of 5.2. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Against Benton County at 42.8%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.1/10. That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $67,679, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $929, close to the Prosser average. 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.