Congress Heights Eviction Risk: High , Washington

SNAP participation runs 43.6% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is state political climate at 9.5/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 9.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,206, 38% below the Washington average. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10.

82% 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. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $40,618, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Housing insecurity runs 29.6% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.2 points above the District of Columbia average of 8.7. The filing record is not thin: 4,172 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2008 at 95.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 67.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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