Arrowhead Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbia

Cost burden runs 70% here against 45.4% across Howard County. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.9/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Howard County average of 5.3.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.4/10. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.5/10. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $188,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,923, close to the Columbia average.

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.