Westlake Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle

95% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 11.6% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Against King County at 44.1%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Average gross rent is $2,457, 21% above the Seattle average. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. 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 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 0%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the King County average of 6.7 closely.

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