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Helmsley Court Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pikesville

Tract 24005403803 · Baltimore County, MD · pop 3,324 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 4.5/10, tract 24005403803 in the Helmsley Court area of Pikesville, MD reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 18% here against 46.8% across Baltimore County.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 6% Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units1,420
Renter share6.8%
SVI overall0.11
Poverty rate2.1%
Median income$141,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Helmsley Court
Moderate
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 8 tracts In Pikesville
Very Low
Within county
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#173 of 219 tracts In Baltimore County
Low
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#976 of 1,464 tracts In Maryland
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pikesville and the region

Centroid at 39.3873, -76.6973 · click any tract to drill in

Why Helmsley Court scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pikesville
6.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Maryland legislature & governorship
5.7
Economic stress
2.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,972 rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pikesville
6.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pikesville
6.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pikesville
5.7

How Helmsley Court compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Helmsley Court risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 4038035.9Pikesvilleparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 11

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Helmsley Court

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 10/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Baltimore County average of 5.7.

At $1,972 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Pikesville commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 6.9/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $141,500, annual rent is just 17%.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 24005403803

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 24005403803?

Census tract 24005403803 in the Helmsley Court neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 24005403803?

Median gross rent is $1,972/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 18% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 24005403803?

2.1% of residents in tract 24005403803 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,324.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 24005403803?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 44th, minority 17th, housing 40th.
Q5

Is tract 24005403803 considered part of Helmsley Court?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 24005403803 fall within Helmsley Court (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 24005403803 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 3.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 24005403803 compare to Pikesville overall?

Tract 24005403803 scores 4.5/10, lower than the parent city of Pikesville at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pikesville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 24005403803 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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