Langston Hughes Eviction Risk: High , Baltimore

Against Baltimore City at 50.2%, 67% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 45.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 50.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $38,833, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.2 points above the Baltimore City average of 6.8.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,459, 10% above the Baltimore average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.9/10.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.

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.