Birch Bay Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $1,665, 36% above the Birch Bay average. Pulling hardest the other way is court filing pressure at 1.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10.

Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. 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 1.8 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $74,556.

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