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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Paradise Eviction Risk: Elevated , Catonsville

Tract 24005492500 · Baltimore County, MD · pop 3,516 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Tract 24005492500 sits in the Paradise area of Catonsville eviction risk, MD, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. It is home to 3,516 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 10/10.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 60% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
Occupied units12
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate46.9%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Paradise
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 13 tracts In Catonsville
Very High
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#38 of 219 tracts In Baltimore County
High
Within state
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#216 of 1,464 tracts In Maryland
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Catonsville and the region

Centroid at 39.2572, -76.7118 · click any tract to drill in

Why Paradise scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Catonsville
8.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.4
State political climate
Maryland legislature & governorship
5.7
Economic stress
46.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Catonsville
7.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Catonsville
6.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Catonsville
5.9

How Paradise compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Paradise risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 4925005.9Catonsvilleparent city5.7Countyavg tract in county5.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 0

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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 Paradise

The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 10/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.9/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Baltimore County average of 5.7. Food insecurity runs 28.4% against 17.8% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 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 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 60%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 24005492500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 24005492500?

Census tract 24005492500 in the Paradise neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 24005492500?

46.9% of residents in tract 24005492500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,516.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 24005492500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 1th, minority 67th, housing 8th.
Q4

Is tract 24005492500 considered part of Paradise?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 24005492500 fall within Paradise (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q5

What share of households in tract 24005492500 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.2% 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. 12.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 24005492500 compare to Catonsville overall?

Tract 24005492500 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Catonsville at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Catonsville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 24005492500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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Highest-risk tracts in Catonsville

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

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