South Lake Union Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

It sits 2.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Set annual rent against average income of $62,995 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Disability prevalence runs 17.5% against 31.5% nationally. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the King County average of 44.1%. At $1,756 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Seattle commands.

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. That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 4.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 3.4 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.