Walbrook Eviction Risk: High , Baltimore

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 40.5% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $42,400, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, economic stress reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against Baltimore City at 50.2%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Baltimore City average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. At $1,479 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Baltimore commands.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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