Alvista Lake Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated

28% 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. Pulling the other way is economic stress, at 1.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. Running cool is supply constraint, at 2.2/10.

Court records for this tract carry 209 eviction filings. Filing activity peaked in 2010 at 5.2% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 3.6% in 2013 against a 5.2% peak.

Among the 22 mapped neighborhoods of Kent, it ranks #17 by risk, the lower third. The closest comparables inside the same city are Fox Creek and Forest Glen South. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent runs $1,932, close to the Kent average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $113,829. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

One tract means one number: 6.2/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.