Mount Hebron Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ellicott City

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Against Howard County at 45.4%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Against the Howard County average of 5.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. Food insecurity runs 6.0% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 3.5% against 15.2% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 2% 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.

Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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