South Bethesda Eviction Risk: Moderate

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.2/10. At $1,930 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Bethesda commands. SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 7.3% against 17.8% nationally. Against Montgomery County at 46.7%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.