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Neighborhood · Fort Washington, MD

Friendly Hills Eviction Risk: Lower

2 census tracts · pop 9,576 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 3.3/10 · range 3.3–3.4

Friendly Hills takes in 2 census tracts of Fort Washington, MD and houses 9,576 people. That produces an Eviction Risk Score of 3.3/10, Lower tier. Cost burden runs 59% against 31.3% citywide, putting Friendly Hills 27.8% over its own city.

The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. On the high side is rent-regulation exposure at 7.9/10.

Filings are well documented here: 348 across 2 observed tracts. Running cool is tenant-organizing strength, at 2.8/10. Average gross rent is $2,373, 12% below the Fort Washington average of $2,690.

The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 57.6% of renter households. Among the 7 mapped neighborhoods of Fort Washington, it ranks #5 by risk, the lower third.

Judgments average 0.9% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. At 12% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. For a like-for-like read, Tantallon Square and Warburton Manor score within a fraction of it.

Rent takes 20% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.

Risk score
3.3
Lower
2 tracts · population-weighted
Friendly Hills vs Fort Washington How this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
% of income on rent
59.1% +89%
Fort Washington: 31.3%
Average gross rent
$2,373 -12%
Fort Washington: $2,690
Average HH income
$143,374 -2%
Fort Washington: $145,942
Poverty rate
4.8% -11%
Fort Washington: 5.4%
Renter share
11.7% +35%
Fort Washington: 8.7%
Peer neighborhoods

Neighborhoods with similar eviction risk

Same county, closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Friendly Hills and the region

Click any tract to drill in · 2 tracts span score 3.3–3.4

Why Friendly Hills scores 3.3

9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendly
State political climate
legislature & governorship · Range 5.7–5.7 across tracts
5.7
Regional political climate
County-level mix · 2024 presidential margin · Range 9.0–9.0 across tracts
9.0
Local political climate
Parent city governance · Range 9.1–9.1 across tracts
9.1
Rent control risk
59% of income on rent · Range 7.2–8.2 across tracts
7.9
Eviction process difficulty
State notice requirements & court backlog · Range 5.3–5.5 across tracts
5.4
Tenant organizing strength
12% renter households · Range 2.7–2.8 across tracts
2.8
Housing court bias
County bench composition · Range 5.2–5.7 across tracts
5.5
Economic stress
4.8% below poverty line · Range 1.0–1.7 across tracts
1.5
Supply constraint
Rent-to-FMR gap & zoning friction · Range 4.1–5.9 across tracts
5.3
Risk score comparison

Friendly Hills vs. parent city, state, U.S.

Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).

Friendly Hills score vs. parent city, state, U.S.3.3Friendly HillsNeighborhood4.6Parent cityhost city5.5Stateavg in state5.1U.S.national avgU.S. avg = 5.0
Census tracts

2 tracts in Friendly Hills

Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.

Tract Score Pop % over 30% on rent Average rent
24033801313 3.4 3,319 96% $2,096
24033801305 3.3 6,257 40% $2,520
Social Vulnerability Index

CDC SVI percentile: 43

Pop-weighted across 2 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.

Socioeconomic status 41%ile
Poverty, unemployment, no-HS-diploma, housing cost burden
Household characteristics 51%ile
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority 92%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport 27%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab

Court-record eviction history in Friendly Hills

Aggregated across 2 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 348Total filings (sum)
  • 18.09%Avg annual filing rate
  • 57.6%Peak year (2016)
  • 28.87%Latest filed (2016)
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted

Eviction-adjacent indicators in Friendly Hills

Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.

Frequently asked

About Friendly Hills

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for Friendly Hills?

Friendly Hills scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier) across 2 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2

How does Friendly Hills compare to Fort Washington overall?

Friendly Hills scores 1.3 points lower than Fort Washington overall (4.6/10). Renters spend 59% of income on rent vs 31% citywide. Average rent: $2,373 vs $2,690.
Q3

What is the average rent in Friendly Hills?

Average gross rent in Friendly Hills is $2,373/month (pop-weighted across 2 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4

What percentage of Friendly Hills residents are renters?

12% of Friendly Hills households are renter-occupied (vs 9% in Fort Washington). The neighborhood has 9,576 residents.
Q5

Is Friendly Hills a high social-vulnerability area?

Friendly Hills sits in the 43rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (less vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6

Which tracts in Friendly Hills have the highest eviction risk?

The highest-risk constituent tract in Friendly Hills is census tract 24033801313 (score 3.4/10). Across the 2 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 3.3 to 3.4, a spread of 0.1 points.
Q7

How safe is Friendly Hills for landlords?

Friendly Hills carries a lower-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (3.3/10). Pop-weighted across 2 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Fort Washington as a whole (4.6/10), this neighborhood is lower-risk.
Q8

What is the demographic breakdown of Friendly Hills?

Friendly Hills has 9,804 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (59.6%), Hispanic / Latino (20.3%), Other / Multiracial (8.5%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
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Other neighborhoods inside Fort Washington

Same parent city, ranked by score similarity to Friendly Hills.

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