Waggaman Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Temple Hills

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 10/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.7/10.

Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Prince George's County average of 4.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $64,339, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 9.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7,002 filings here across 4 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 242.9% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,973, 9% above the Temple Hills average.

In a typical year about 210.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.