Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Kettering Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 24033803526 · Prince George's County, MD · pop 3,511
Census tract 24033803526 covers part of Kettering, MD, and scores 3.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,511 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 10/10.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units1,392
Renter share15.4%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$108,300
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
20
th percentile
Very Low
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kettering and the region
Centroid at 38.8845, -76.8056 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kettering scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kettering
9.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
9.0
State political climate
Maryland legislature & governorship
5.7
Economic stress
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$2,153 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kettering
3.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kettering
3.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kettering
3.6
How Kettering compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 37Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2012)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 17% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 11.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.5%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.0%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 24.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kettering
The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 9/10. Cost burden runs around a third here against 45.6% across Prince George's County.
It sits 1.1 points below the Prince George's County average of 4.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 37 filings here across 4 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 5.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 24033803526
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 24033803526?
Census tract 24033803526 in Kettering scores 3.8/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 24033803526?
Median gross rent is $2,153/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 24033803526?
4.1% of residents in tract 24033803526 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,511.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 24033803526?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 64th, minority 97th, housing 34th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 24033803526?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 37 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 24033803526 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.07% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 24033803526 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 11.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 24033803526 compare to Kettering overall?
Tract 24033803526 scores 3.8/10, lower than the parent city of Kettering at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kettering; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Kettering
Top eight tracts in Kettering ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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