Within parent city
25
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally
Parkland Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 53053071503 · Pierce County, WA · pop 6,125
53053071503 is a census tract in Parkland, WA. It scores 7/10 for landlords. Population here is 6,125. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units2,125
Renter share32.7%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate10.8%
Median income$85,139
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
National
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Parkland and the region
Centroid at 47.1333, -122.4519 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parkland scores 7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Parkland
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
10.8% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,467 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Parkland
8.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Parkland
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Parkland
7.1
How Parkland compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
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)
- 305Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2014)
- 24Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 33% over the past 11 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 119Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.97×Ratio to 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
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Parkland
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10.
Cost burden runs 56% here against 47.5% across Pierce County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.
Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The filing record is not thin: 305 evictions over 11 years of observation.
Average gross rent is $1,467, 12% below the Parkland average. The worst year on record was 2014, when 4.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 53053071503
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53053071503?
Census tract 53053071503 in Parkland scores 7/10 (Elevated 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 53053071503?
Median gross rent is $1,467/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53053071503?
10.8% of residents in tract 53053071503 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,125.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53053071503?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 66th, household 91th, minority 68th, housing 97th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53053071503?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 305 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 53053071503 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.71% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 53053071503 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.97× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (St Louis, MO), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 53053071503 compare to Parkland overall?
Tract 53053071503 scores 7/10, higher than the parent city of Parkland at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Parkland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Parkland
Top eight tracts in Parkland ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · WA
Larchmont
7.9
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
International District
7.9
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
International District
7.9
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
Larchmont
7.8
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
Larchmont
7.7
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
53053071504
7.5
/ 10 · High
Tract · WA
53053071506
6.2
/ 10 · Elevated
Tract · WA
53053071505
5.8
/ 10 · Elevated
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