Happy Valley Eviction Risk: High , Bellingham

Against Whatcom County at 49.6%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.8 points.

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Set annual rent against average income of $38,565 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.8/10. This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Average gross rent is $1,278, 19% below the Bellingham average. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.8 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.