Defense Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 85% against 35.9% citywide, putting Defense Heights 49.2% over its own city. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 9.4/10.

The poverty rate is 37%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.4/10.

Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1.6/10. SNAP participation is 30.7% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 25.5% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. At $1,289 a month, rents sit 12% under what the rest of Dundalk commands.

That places it #1 of 16 neighborhoods in Dundalk. For a like-for-like read, Manchester and Graceland score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 8/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 7.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.