Columbia City Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Cost burden runs 38% here against 44.1% across King County. The filing record is not thin: 78 evictions over 10 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the King County average of 6.7.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 5.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,042, close to the Seattle average. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $134,620.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.