Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Cost burden runs 32% here against 44.1% across King County.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.2% against 31.5% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7 filings here across 3 tracked years.

The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2007, when 1.3% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 86% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.4/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $163,056, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.