East Towson Eviction Risk: High
Tract 24005490900 · Baltimore County, MD · pop 4,509 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
24005490900 is a census tract in the East Towson area of Towson, MD. It scores 8/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,509 residents. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Towson and the region
Centroid at 39.3987, -76.5944 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Towson scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Towson compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 31%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.1%Food insecurity
- 13.1%SNAP enrollment
- 8.8%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in East Towson
Against the Baltimore County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. Set annual rent against average income of $40,789 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. 66% 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.
The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $1,366, 23% below the Towson average.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. Cost burden runs 43% here against 46.8% across Baltimore County. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Towson
Top eight tracts in Towson ranked by composite eviction-risk score.