Jeffers Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbia

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Howard County at 45.4%, 35% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.5/10. It sits 0.8 points above the Howard County average of 5.3.

The voucher gap is 12.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $2,211, 8% above the Columbia average. That is riskier than roughly 79% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 22% 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 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $130,781.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.