Gregory Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

22% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side is economic stress, at 1.5/10. At $2,252 a month, rents sit 26% over what the rest of Burien commands.

The filing record is not thin: 12 evictions logged in this tract. The worst year on record was 2011, when filings touched 3.1% of renter households.

Running hot is rent-regulation exposure at 7/10. Cost burden runs 34% against 30.9% citywide, putting Gregory Heights 3.1% over its own city. The most recent observed rate, 0.8% in 2013, is well off that peak.

That places it #8 of 7 neighborhoods in Burien. At 19% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

Rent takes 18% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.4 points apart at the extremes.

With little internal variation, 5.8/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.