Union Hill-Novelty Hill Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 53033032328 · King County, WA · pop 3,305
Union Hill-Novelty Hill anchors census tract 53033032328, which lands at 5.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 63% of US census tracts.
About 74% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 74% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $226,781 a year. About 2% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Union Hill-Novelty Hill and the region
Centroid at 47.6642, -122.0461 · click any tract to drill in
Why Union Hill-Novelty Hill scores 2.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Union Hill-Novelty Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 11Total filings over 7 yrs
- 0.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.0%Peak (2008)
- 1Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Union Hill-Novelty Hill
What moves this score most is rent-control risk at 8.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Union Hill-Novelty Hill eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the King County average of 5.5 and above the Washington statewide average of 5.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 5th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 11 eviction filings here over 7 tracked years, with about 0.8% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 1.0% of renter households in 2008.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 53033032328
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