Fort Washington Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.4/10.

Against the Montgomery County average of 4.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 94 evictions over 7 years of observation.

At $1,721 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Fort Washington commands. Filings peaked in 2004 at 8.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $155,263, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

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