Maxwell Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Montgomery

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 33.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $676, 38% below the Montgomery average.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 75% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.1% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points above the Montgomery County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 295 evictions over 9 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 11.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 6.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.