Better Waverly Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Housing insecurity runs 25.1% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,190 a month, rents run 11% under 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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