West Riding Eviction Risk: Elevated , Gaithersburg

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Average gross rent is $2,732, 33% above the Gaithersburg average. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

The voucher gap is 18.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Montgomery County average of 46.7%. SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 11% 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 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Montgomery County average of 6.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $160,789.

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