Highlands of Olney Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Montgomery County average of 46.7%.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Against the Montgomery County average of 6.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.1 points. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The voucher gap is 13.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $2,631, 9% above the Olney average. Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.