Montrose Eviction Risk: Elevated , Rockville

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8/10. Cost burden runs 53% here against 46.7% across Montgomery County.

SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 0.8 points above the Montgomery County average of 6.0. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $2,144, close to the Rockville average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $103,924.

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.