Druid Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 32.7% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Housing insecurity runs 27.7% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $1,155, 13% below the Baltimore average.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Baltimore. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #11,988 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 54% of renters.

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.