Hopewell Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbia

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.9/10. Against the Howard County average of 5.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.4/10. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs about half here against 45.4% across Howard County. The voucher gap is 13.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $2,231 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Columbia commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $106,558.

32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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