Washington Highlands Eviction Risk: High

Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 51.0% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 43.7% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, state political climate reads 9.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.2 points above the District of Columbia average of 8.7.

The filing record is not thin: 624 evictions over 7 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2018, when 28.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 20.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. 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 DC average is 8.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.