Wedgwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

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

At $2,592 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Disability prevalence runs 16.5% against 31.5% nationally. Against King County at 44.1%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 14 evictions over 8 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 1.5% 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.

In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.