Whittier Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.4/10. 12% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Cost burden runs 33% against 27.4% citywide, putting Whittier Heights 5.1% over its own city. Court records carry 166 eviction filings across its 4 observed tracts.

The worst year on record was 2005, when filings touched 1.2% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 0.4% in 2013, is well off that peak.

At $2,156 a month, rents sit 6% over what the rest of Seattle commands. Among the 65 mapped neighborhoods of Seattle, it ranks #49 by risk, the lower third.

For a like-for-like read, North Beach and Arbor Heights score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $153,661, annual rent is only 17%, a wide affordability cushion.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 7 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.9 points apart at the extremes.

With little internal variation, 7.1/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.