Vinegar Flats Eviction Risk: Moderate , Spokane
Tract 53063004200 · Spokane County, WA · pop 4,980 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
53063004200 is a census tract in the Vinegar Flats area of Spokane, WA. It scores 4.5/10 for landlords. roughly one in eight of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far below the Spokane County average of 45.2%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Spokane and the region
Centroid at 47.6342, -117.4189 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vinegar Flats scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Vinegar Flats compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 53%Grade A
- 29%Grade B
- 3%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 6Total filings over 3 yrs
- 0.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.0%Peak (2015)
- 1Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Vinegar Flats
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Spokane County average of 5.7. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 6 filings here across 3 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 0.7% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 9% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10.
Against average income of $112,234, annual rent is just 13%. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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