Wickford Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Running cool is economic stress, at 1/10.

At $2,786 a month, rents sit 27% over what the rest of North Bethesda commands. The voucher gap is 20.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

11% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. 3.4% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot is supply constraint at 7.1/10. 4.8% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

Among the 11 mapped neighborhoods of North Bethesda, it ranks #7 by risk, the middle third. The closest comparables inside the same city are NoBe District and Lone Oak. Rent takes 19% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Its 2 tracts score within 0.1 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.

35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

With little internal variation, 5.9/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.