Curtis Bay Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 10/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10. Food insecurity runs 31.2% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $1,099 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Baltimore commands. Against Baltimore City at 50.2%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.7% 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 0.7 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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