Lynden Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is court filing pressure at 1.1/10. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

Against the Whatcom County average of 5.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 12 evictions over 3 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 24% 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 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,655, close to the Lynden average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.