Running Brook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbia

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.9/10. The voucher gap is 41.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, supply constraint reads 9.2/10.

At $2,788 a month, rents run 35% over what the rest of Ellicott City commands. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Howard County average of 5.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Howard County average of 45.4%.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.