South Lake Union Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9.5/10. Against the King County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Disability prevalence runs 15.9% against 31.5% nationally. Cost burden runs 35% here against 44.1% across King County.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $2,308, 14% above the Seattle average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $103,382.

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