Berea Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 50.2% across Baltimore City. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 10/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $53,000 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 48.2% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against the Baltimore City average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

At $1,481 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Baltimore commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Baltimore. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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