Chestnut Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Wheaton

It sits 1.9 points above the Montgomery County average of 6.0. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 46.7% across Montgomery County.

On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,215, close to the Wheaton average.

Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $83,284. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.