Brightwood Park Eviction Risk: High , Washington

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 27%, 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 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $1,299, 34% below the Washington average.

SNAP participation runs 31.1% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the District of Columbia average of 8.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Housing insecurity runs 24.4% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,425 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2007 at 22.2% of renter households.

In a typical year about 17.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10.

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