Little Saigon Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Cost burden runs 37% here against 44.1% across King County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 192 filings here across 10 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 4.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #6,676 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $177,510, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter.

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