The Colony Eviction Risk: Elevated , Germantown

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 75% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

It sits 1.7 points above the Montgomery County average of 6.0. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

Cost burden runs 38% here against 46.7% across Montgomery County. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Food insecurity runs 27.1% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 22.7% against 14.2% nationally.

At $1,776 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Germantown commands. On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.