Laurel Oaks Eviction Risk: Elevated

On the softer side is economic stress, at 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 18%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.7 to 6.7, a 1-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

At $1,558 a month, rents sit 17% under what the rest of Lacey commands. On the high side is rent-regulation exposure at 7.5/10.

37% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, slightly above the Lacey rate of 32.9%. That places it #3 of 4 neighborhoods in Lacey. At 21% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Southlake Neighborhood and Chestnut Village. Against average income of $96,297, annual rent is only 19%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.