West Richland Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 13 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2004 at 7.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 7.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.3/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $61,833, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters. It tracks the Benton County average of 5.2 closely.

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