York Eviction Risk: High , Bellingham

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10.

Cost burden runs 58% here against 49.6% across Whatcom County. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 25 eviction filings across 3 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 0.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 0.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #4,888 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 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 2.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least 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.