Benning Eviction Risk: High , Washington

The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is state political climate at 9.5/10.

At $1,160 a month, rents run 41% under what the rest of Washington commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10. Food insecurity runs 34.6% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Against the District of Columbia average of 8.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records carry 4,033 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 80.8% of renter households.

In a typical year about 53.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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