Bellingham Eviction Risk: High

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $1,197 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Bellingham commands. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 45% here against 49.6% across Whatcom County. Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $69,257. 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.