West Campus Eviction Risk: High , Seattle
Tract 53033005304 · King County, WA · pop 3,541 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
With a score of 9.3/10, tract 53033005304 in the West Campus area of Seattle, WA reads high for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,541 residents. The severe-burden share is 71%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.6561, -122.3150 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Campus scores 9.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Campus compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 45%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Campus. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in West Campus
Cost burden runs 80% here against 44.1% across King County. Annualized rent equals 83% of average household income of $25,083, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10. It sits 2.6 points above the King County average of 6.7.
Running hot, economic stress reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. At $1,729 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Seattle commands. 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.
Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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