Montgomery Eviction Risk: Moderate

Disability prevalence runs 52.2% against 31.5% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.0 points above the Montgomery County average of 4.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 617 filings here across 9 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 18.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Montgomery. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Average gross rent is $1,001, 8% below the Montgomery average.

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.