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Neighborhood · Ranked #12,919 of 84,120 nationally

West Glen Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lochearn

Tract 24005402403 · Baltimore County, MD · pop 2,229 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 24005402403 sits in the West Glen area of Lochearn eviction risk, MD, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7/10. It is home to 2,229 residents. Severe burden reaches 80%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 2% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units870
Renter share9.4%
SVI overall0.53
Poverty rate15.4%
Median income$66,923

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In West Glen
Very Low
Within parent city
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#3 of 8 tracts In Lochearn
Elevated
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#48 of 219 tracts In Baltimore County
High
Within state
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#302 of 1,464 tracts In Maryland
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lochearn and the region

Centroid at 39.3318, -76.7191 · click any tract to drill in

Why West Glen scores 7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lochearn
8.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Maryland legislature & governorship
5.7
Economic stress
15.4% poverty · this tract
3.8
Supply constraint
$2,260 rent vs county FMR
6.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lochearn
8.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lochearn
6.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lochearn
6.5

How West Glen compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
West Glen risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.0This tracttract 4024035.9Lochearnparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 53

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within West Glen. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in West Glen

Cost burden runs 80% here against 46.8% across Baltimore County. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 10/10. Average gross rent is $2,260, 55% above the Lochearn average.

Set annual rent against average income of $66,923 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.9/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10. Against the Baltimore County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The voucher gap is 15.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Housing insecurity runs 22.0% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.3% 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.

That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 24005402403

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 24005402403?

Census tract 24005402403 in the West Glen neighborhood scores 7/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 24005402403?

Median gross rent is $2,260/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 80% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 24005402403?

15.4% of residents in tract 24005402403 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,229.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 24005402403?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 53th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 44th, minority 94th, housing 27th.
Q5

Is tract 24005402403 considered part of West Glen?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 24005402403 fall within West Glen (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 24005402403 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 14.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 24005402403 compare to Lochearn overall?

Tract 24005402403 scores 7/10, higher than the parent city of Lochearn at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lochearn eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 24005402403 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Lochearn

Top eight tracts in Lochearn ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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