Lawton Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Average gross rent is $2,407, 19% above the Seattle average. Court records carry 33 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.0% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2010, when 0.7% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $185,409, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

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.