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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Ruxton Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Towson

Tract 24005490400 · Baltimore County, MD · pop 1,954 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

24005490400 is a census tract in the Ruxton Hills area of Towson, MD. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,954 residents. Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 46.8% across Baltimore County.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1% Stable renters 4% Owners 95%
Tract context
Occupied units654
Renter share5.2%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate7.3%
Median income$208,021

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Ruxton Hills
Moderate
Within parent city
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#13 of 19 tracts In Towson
Low
Within county
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#122 of 219 tracts In Baltimore County
Moderate
Within state
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#700 of 1,464 tracts In Maryland
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Towson and the region

Centroid at 39.3975, -76.6532 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ruxton Hills scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Towson
6.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Maryland legislature & governorship
5.7
Economic stress
7.3% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$2,333 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Towson
7.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Towson
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Towson
6.6

How Ruxton Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ruxton Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 4904006.6Towsonparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 8

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.

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 Ruxton Hills

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 10/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $2,333, 32% above the Towson average.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 18.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.0% against 11.3% nationally. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 5% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 24005490400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 24005490400?

Census tract 24005490400 in the Ruxton Hills neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 24005490400?

Median gross rent is $2,333/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 24005490400?

7.3% of residents in tract 24005490400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,954.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 24005490400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 35th, minority 14th, housing 18th.
Q5

Is tract 24005490400 considered part of Ruxton Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 24005490400 fall within Ruxton Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 24005490400 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.3% 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. 3.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 24005490400 compare to Towson overall?

Tract 24005490400 scores 5.4/10, lower than the parent city of Towson at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Towson eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 24005490400 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.
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Top eight tracts in Towson ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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