Lakelands Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated , Gaithersburg

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.4% against 31.5% nationally.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $2,369, 15% above the Gaithersburg average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $165,700, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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