International District Eviction Risk: High , Lakewood

Against the Pierce County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points. This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Cost burden runs 59% here against 47.5% across Pierce County.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $54,188, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is local political climate at 7.8/10.

The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 479 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2004 at 4.5% of renter households. At $1,528 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Tacoma commands.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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