Hawthorne Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 15.9% against 31.5% nationally. Against King County at 44.1%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.

15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 17.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Court records carry 3 eviction filings across 3 observed years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2011, when 0.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 0.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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