Westlake Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

Against King County at 44.1%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally.

Court records carry 58 eviction filings across 10 observed years. It sits 0.7 points above the King County average of 6.7.

At $2,226 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Filings peaked in 2004 at 0.8% of renter households.

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. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10.

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