Shepherd Park Eviction Risk: High , Silver Spring

82% 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. Against the Montgomery County average of 6.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.9/10.

That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Average gross rent is $1,907, close to the Silver Spring average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $86,083.

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.