Talbott Springs Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbia

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.9/10. 83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10.

The voucher gap is 20.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally.

At $2,364 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Columbia commands. Against the Howard County average of 5.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 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.