Larchmont Eviction Risk: High , Tacoma
Tract 53053063402 · Pierce County, WA · pop 3,979 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 53053063402 covers part of the Larchmont area of Tacoma, WA, and scores 8.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. 47% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Tacoma and the region
Centroid at 47.1755, -122.4315 · click any tract to drill in
Why Larchmont scores 8.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Larchmont compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 50%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 114Total filings 2020-21
- 1.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.22×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked St Louis, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Larchmont. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Larchmont
Against Pierce County at 47.5%, 70% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 2.7 points above the Pierce County average of 5.7. Set annual rent against average income of $63,880 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The dominant input is local political climate at 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.5/10.
On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 7.5/10. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Tacoma. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
On the national scale it lands near the 93rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,736, close to the Tacoma average.
38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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