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Census Tract · Ranked #9,927 of 84,120 nationally

Mount Vernon Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 53057952301 · Skagit County, WA · pop 5,066

53057952301 is a census tract in Mount Vernon, WA. It scores 7.6/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 25% Owners 47%
Tract context
Occupied units1,671
Renter share52.9%
SVI overall1.00
Poverty rate30.6%
Median income$57,268

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 10 tracts In Mount Vernon
High
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 41 tracts In Skagit County
Very High
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#253 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
High
National
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#9,927 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Mount Vernon and the region

Centroid at 48.4355, -122.3026 · click any tract to drill in

Why Mount Vernon scores 7.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Mount Vernon
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.4
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
30.6% poverty · this tract
7.6
Supply constraint
$1,133 rent vs county FMR
1.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Mount Vernon
7.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Mount Vernon
7.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Mount Vernon
7.5

How Mount Vernon compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Mount Vernon risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.67.6This tracttract 952301Mount Vernon: 6.26.2Mount Vernonparent cityCounty: 5.45.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.95.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 100

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 22Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 1.19%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.1%Peak (2015)
  • 11Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Mount Vernon

It sits 2.2 points above the Skagit County average of 5.4. The main counterweight is court filing pressure at 1.7/10.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Cost burden runs 53% here against 44.2% across Skagit County. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 22.5% against 11.3% nationally. At $1,133 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Mount Vernon commands. Court records carry 22 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 10/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 53057952301

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53057952301?

Census tract 53057952301 in Mount Vernon scores 7.6/10 (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 53057952301?

Median gross rent is $1,133/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53057952301?

30.6% of residents in tract 53057952301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,066.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53057952301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 100th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 99th, minority 72th, housing 100th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53057952301?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 22 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 53057952301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.19% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

How does tract 53057952301 compare to Mount Vernon overall?

Tract 53057952301 scores 7.6/10, higher than the parent city of Mount Vernon at 6.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mount Vernon eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Mount Vernon

Top eight tracts in Mount Vernon ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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