Lake Tapps Eviction Risk: Lower

Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.7 points. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.6/10.

Running cool, housing-court posture reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 104 filings here across 11 tracked years. At $1,897 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Lake Tapps commands.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $129,239, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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