Lawton Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

What pushes it up most 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 16.0% against 31.5% nationally.

65% 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. At $2,368 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 111 filings here across 10 tracked years.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The worst year on record was 2004, when 0.9% 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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