Springfield Eviction Risk: Moderate , Bethesda

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.8/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.1/10.

Against Montgomery County at 46.7%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.2/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.0% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 15.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $2,681, 9% above the Bethesda average. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $202,841, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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