Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.6 points. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

87% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.9% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against King County at 44.1%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The filing record is not thin: 186 evictions over 10 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2007 at 2.1% of renter households.

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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.

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.