West Side Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cumberland

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 0.9 points above the Allegany County average of 5.5. On the national scale it lands near the 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 37% of renters. Average gross rent is $719, close to the Cumberland average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $46,078.

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