Brightwood Park Eviction Risk: High , Washington

The score leans hardest on state political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10.

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $1,417, 27% below the Washington average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,930 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2018, when 39.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 33.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 94th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $97,659, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the District of Columbia average of 8.7 closely.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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