Hampstead Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.2% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,108, 15% below the Hampstead average.

That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 14% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $95,859, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.