Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #10,727 of 84,120 nationally
Arbor Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033012000 · King County, WA · pop 3,308 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
With a score of 7.4/10, tract 53033012000 in the Arbor Heights area of Seattle, WA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10.
Risk score
7.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,482
Renter share17.9%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate4.8%
Median income$117,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
67
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5129, -122.3806 · click any tract to drill in
Why Arbor Heights scores 7.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Seattle
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
4.8% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$2,531 rent vs county FMR
4.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Seattle
8.5
How Arbor Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 5%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 38Total filings over 9 yrs
- 1.39%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.9%Peak (2006)
- 3Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Arbor Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Arbor Heights
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
At $2,531 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally.
Against King County at 44.1%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 38 evictions over 9 years of observation. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 1.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033012000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033012000?
Census tract 53033012000 in the Arbor Heights neighborhood scores 7.4/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 53033012000?
Median gross rent is $2,531/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033012000?
4.8% of residents in tract 53033012000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,308.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033012000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 40th, minority 26th, housing 5th.
Q5
Is tract 53033012000 considered part of Arbor Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033012000 fall within Arbor Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033012000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 38 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 53033012000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.39% of renter households, peaking at 1.9% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033012000 compare to Seattle overall?
Tract 53033012000 scores 7.4/10, lower than the parent city of Seattle at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Seattle
Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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Greek Row
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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Fairmont Springs
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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Rainier Beach
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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Japantown
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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Rainier Vista
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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Little Saigon
9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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9.3
/ 10 · Very High
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