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Stadium District Eviction Risk: High , Tacoma

Tract 53053061601 · Pierce County, WA · pop 1,929 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Tract 53053061601 sits in the Stadium District area of Tacoma eviction risk, WA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.4/10. Population here is 1,929. Average gross rent is $844, 50% below the Tacoma average.

Risk score
8.4
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 43% Owners 18%
Tract context
Occupied units1,416
Renter share81.7%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate38.8%
Median income$27,885

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Stadium District
Moderate
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#10 of 50 tracts In Tacoma
High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#6 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 47.2542, -122.4402 · click any tract to drill in

Why Stadium District 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
38.8% poverty · this tract
9.7
Supply constraint
$844 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Stadium District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Stadium District risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.4This tracttract 0616017.0Tacomaparent 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)

  • 234Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 2.01%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.0%Peak (2015)
  • 37Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 53053061601
Filings climbed 118% over the past 11 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 203Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.96×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below 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 Stadium District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Stadium District

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.7/10. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points.

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. 82% 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.

Set annual rent against average income of $27,885 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 43.8% against 31.5% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 234 evictions over 11 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.0% 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.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 53053061601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053061601?

Census tract 53053061601 in the Stadium District 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 53053061601?

Median gross rent is $844/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53053061601?

38.8% of residents in tract 53053061601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,929.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53053061601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 57th, minority 49th, housing 98th.
Q5

Is tract 53053061601 considered part of Stadium District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53053061601 fall within Stadium District (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053061601?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 234 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 53053061601 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.01% of renter households, peaking at 3.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 53053061601 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.96× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 53053061601 compare to Tacoma overall?

Tract 53053061601 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 53053061601 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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