Otterbein Eviction Risk: Moderate , Baltimore

At $1,827 a month, rents run 37% over what the rest of Baltimore commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.2 points below the Baltimore City average of 6.8. Running hot, local political climate reads 7/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $86,429.

62% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.