Flamewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fulton

The voucher gap is 59.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.9/10.

Against Howard County at 45.4%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.2% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 0.9 points below the Howard County average of 5.3. 8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 14% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $225,804, annual rent is just 17%.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.