West Glen Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lochearn

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.9/10.

Against Baltimore County at 46.8%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Baltimore County average of 5.7.

SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 23.5% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Baltimore. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,390, close to the Lochearn average. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $55,845.

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