Poppleton Eviction Risk: High , Baltimore

At $539 a month, rents run 60% under what the rest of Baltimore commands. Food insecurity runs 55.5% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 10/10. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 50.1% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Set annual rent against average income of $18,459 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Against the Baltimore City average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.