Keywaydin Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ellicott City

Cost burden runs 63% here against 45.4% across Howard County. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.3 points below the Howard County average of 5.3. Food insecurity runs 6.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The voucher gap is 15.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $2,259 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Ellicott City commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 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. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $142,926.

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