Fort Lewis Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 53053072909 · Pierce County, WA · pop 2,215 · 27% of tract blocks fall in Fort Lewis
Census tract 53053072909 covers part of Fort Lewis, WA, and scores 7.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,215. The severe-burden share is 54%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Lewis and the region
Centroid at 47.0302, -122.5502 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Lewis scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fort Lewis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 1Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.12×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Fort Lewis
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.9/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10. This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10. Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.
Cost burden runs 54% here against 47.5% across Pierce County. At $1,857 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Fort Lewis commands.
On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.1/10. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
About tract 53053072909
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Highest-risk tracts in Fort Lewis
Top eight tracts in Fort Lewis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.