Meritage Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated

The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.7/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 5.7 to 7.2, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. On the high side is housing-court posture at 7.5/10.

Filings are well documented here: 195 across 2 observed tracts. The worst year on record was 2011, when filings touched 1.9% of renter households. Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7/10.

Recent filings have not receded much: 1.5% in 2013 against a 1.9% peak. Among the 7 mapped neighborhoods of Kirkland, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

For a like-for-like read, Maple Glen and Willows & Rose Hill score within a fraction of it. Poverty sits at 7%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent runs $2,482, close to the Kirkland average.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $128,153. 41% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.5 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.