Johnston Square Eviction Risk: High , Baltimore

At $375 a month, rents run 72% under what the rest of Baltimore commands. Food insecurity runs 40.6% against 17.8% nationally.

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 43.6% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 1.2 points above the Baltimore City average of 6.8. 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 #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

about half of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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