Market Square South Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ellicott City

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Howard County at 45.4%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Against the Howard County average of 5.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The voucher gap is 17.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. At $2,298 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Ellicott City commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $212,745, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.