Running Brook Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 33%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.2/10.

The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 4 to 6.3, a 2.3-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. The voucher gap is 18.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

At $2,333 a month, rents sit 14% over what the rest of Columbia commands. Food insecurity affects 7.8% of adults, 10.0 points below the national rate.

4.8% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. That places it #19 of 19 neighborhoods in Columbia.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Haviland Hills and Chriswood Manor. Against average income of $155,597, annual rent is only 18%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 5.2 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.