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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Emerson Eviction Risk: Elevated , Spokane

Tract 53063002000 · Spokane County, WA · pop 4,162 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

With a score of 7.3/10, tract 53063002000 in the Emerson area of Spokane, WA reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,162 residents. The severe-burden share is 43%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 16% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,689
Renter share51.4%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate30.3%
Median income$41,250

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Emerson
Very High
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 66 tracts In Spokane
High
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 130 tracts In Spokane County
High
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#348 of 1,772 tracts In Washington
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Spokane and the region

Centroid at 47.6784, -117.4317 · click any tract to drill in

Why Emerson scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Spokane
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.8
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
30.3% poverty · this tract
7.6
Supply constraint
$982 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Spokane
5.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Spokane
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Spokane
5.5

How Emerson compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Emerson risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0020005.9Spokaneparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 71

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

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)

  • 177Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 6.53%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.8%Peak (2015)
  • 45Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2014 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 53063002000
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Emerson. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Emerson

Cost burden runs 68% here against 45.2% across Spokane County. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Spokane County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.6/10.

At $982 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Spokane commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 177 filings here across 3 tracked years.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 3/10. Filings peaked in 2015 at 7.8% of renter households.

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 6.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 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 53063002000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53063002000?

Census tract 53063002000 in the Emerson neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (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 53063002000?

Median gross rent is $982/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 53063002000?

30.3% of residents in tract 53063002000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,162.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 53063002000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 91th, minority 35th, housing 23th.
Q5

Is tract 53063002000 considered part of Emerson?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53063002000 fall within Emerson (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53063002000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 177 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 53063002000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.53% of renter households, peaking at 7.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 53063002000 compare to Spokane overall?

Tract 53063002000 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Spokane at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Spokane eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 53063002000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 4% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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