The Hills at Kenilworth Eviction Risk: High , Towson

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Baltimore County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

79% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.1/10. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $1,638, close to the Towson average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.