Hagerstown Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 2.5 points above the Washington County average of 5.4.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. SNAP participation runs 33.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Cost burden runs 51% here against 42.4% across Washington County. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.4/10.

Housing insecurity runs 24.5% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10. 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 $1,073, close to the Hagerstown average.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $41,907.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.