Fairmont Springs Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

It sits 2.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Average gross rent is $1,352, 33% below the Seattle average. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 113 eviction filings across 10 observed years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 2.1% of renter households were served.

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 1.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $95,410, annual rent is just 17%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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