East Baltimore Midway Eviction Risk: High

Cost burden runs 81% here against 50.2% across Baltimore City. Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income of $28,172, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 53.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 59.9% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 45%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 10/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Baltimore City average of 6.8. Average gross rent is $1,441, 8% above the Baltimore average.

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 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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