6th Avenue Eviction Risk: Elevated , Tacoma

Cost burden runs 64% here against 47.5% across Pierce County. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.1/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.8/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 234 filings here across 11 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 2.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,573, close to the Tacoma average.

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.