Central Business District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

89% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Disability prevalence runs 17.7% against 31.5% nationally.

Against King County at 44.1%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $2,404 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Court records carry 319 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Seattle. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10.

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