Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Average gross rent is $1,197, 41% below the Seattle average. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. 96% 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.

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $37,793 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 53% here against 44.1% across King County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 85 filings here across 10 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2013 at 0.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

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.