Northwest Eviction Risk: Elevated , Spokane

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is court filing pressure at 3/10. The filing record is not thin: 30 evictions over 3 years of observation.

At $1,328 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Spokane commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when 1.6% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Spokane. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 79% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

It tracks the Spokane County average of 5.7 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.