Westlake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Seattle

Census tract 53033006703 in the Westlake neighborhood scores 5.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

Median gross rent is $2,275/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.

3.9% of residents in tract 53033006703 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,217.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 2th, minority 49th, housing 51th.

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033006703 fall within Westlake (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).

Tract 53033006703 scores 5.9/10 — lower than the parent city of Seattle at 8.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Yes — this tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.