University Park Eviction Risk: High , Seattle

66% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the King County average of 44.1%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.9/10.

It sits 2.6 points above the King County average of 6.7. This is renter territory: 94% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $47,690, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

At $1,624 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Seattle commands. The filing record is not thin: 36 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 1.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

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