College Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Catonsville

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.9/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.2 points below the Baltimore County average of 5.7. Against Baltimore County at 46.8%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally.

At $1,461 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Catonsville commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $126,136, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

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.