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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Meridian Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Tract 53033005100 · King County, WA · pop 3,791 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

53033005100 is a census tract in the Meridian area of Seattle, WA. It scores 7.3/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,791. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 22% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,599
Renter share39.0%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate8.0%
Median income$147,656

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 7 tracts In Meridian
Low
Within parent city
36 th percentile
Rank, 36th percentileLowHigh
#114 of 177 tracts In Seattle
Low
Within county
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#186 of 494 tracts In King County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#348 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Seattle and the region

Centroid at 47.6585, -122.3322 · click any tract to drill in

Why Meridian scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Seattle
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
8.0% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,965 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Seattle
8.5

How Meridian compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Meridian risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.37.3This tracttract 005100Seattle: 7.97.9Seattleparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 14

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 17Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 0.32%Avg annual filing rate
  • 0.7%Peak (2011)
  • 3Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 530330051002004: 3 filings (0.43/100 renter HHs)2005: 1 filings (0.13/100 renter HHs)2006: 1 filings (0.13/100 renter HHs)2007: 3 filings (0.39/100 renter HHs)2008: 1 filings (0.13/100 renter HHs)2009: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2010: 0 filings (0.00/100 renter HHs)2011: 4 filings (0.68/100 renter HHs)2012: 1 filings (0.17/100 renter HHs)2013: 3 filings (0.51/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Meridian. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Meridian

The dominant input is local political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.2% against 31.5% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 17 filings here across 8 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 0.7% of renter households. 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 0.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $147,656, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 53033005100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033005100?

Census tract 53033005100 in the Meridian neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 53033005100?

Median gross rent is $1,965/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53033005100?

8.0% of residents in tract 53033005100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,791.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53033005100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 4th, minority 39th, housing 58th.
Q5

Is tract 53033005100 considered part of Meridian?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033005100 fall within Meridian (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033005100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 17 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 53033005100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.32% of renter households, peaking at 0.7% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53033005100 compare to Seattle overall?

Tract 53033005100 scores 7.3/10, lower than the parent city of Seattle at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 53033005100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 6% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Seattle ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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