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Neighborhood · Ranked #5,730 of 84,120 nationally

Oakland Madrona Eviction Risk: High , Tacoma

Tract 53053062600 · Pierce County, WA · pop 4,215 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Tract 53053062600 sits in the Oakland Madrona area of Tacoma eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.4/10. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53% Stable renters 35% Owners 12%
Tract context
Occupied units2,205
Renter share87.9%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate20.5%
Median income$61,508

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Oakland Madrona
Very High
Within parent city
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 50 tracts In Tacoma
Very High
Within county
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 193 tracts In Pierce County
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#59 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Tacoma and the region

Centroid at 47.2204, -122.4774 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oakland Madrona scores 8.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Tacoma
7.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
20.5% poverty · this tract
5.1
Supply constraint
$1,667 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Tacoma
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Tacoma
7.5

How Oakland Madrona compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oakland Madrona risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0626007.0Tacomaparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 91

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 419Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 5.12%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.1%Peak (2014)
  • 53Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 53053062600
Filings climbed 96% over the past 11 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 216Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.24×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oakland Madrona. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oakland Madrona

It sits 2.7 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7. 88% 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. Against Pierce County at 47.5%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $61,508, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 7.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.5/10.

Court records carry 419 eviction filings across 11 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 7.1% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. In a typical year about 5.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 53053062600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053062600?

Census tract 53053062600 in the Oakland Madrona neighborhood scores 8.4/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 53053062600?

Median gross rent is $1,667/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53053062600?

20.5% of residents in tract 53053062600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,215.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53053062600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 90th, minority 68th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 53053062600 considered part of Oakland Madrona?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053062600 fall within Oakland Madrona (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053062600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 419 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 53053062600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.12% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 53053062600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.24× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 53053062600 compare to Tacoma overall?

Tract 53053062600 scores 8.4/10, higher than the parent city of Tacoma at 7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Tacoma eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 53053062600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 21% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Tacoma

Top eight tracts in Tacoma ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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