New Northwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.8/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Food insecurity runs 28.4% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 51% of renters. It tracks the Baltimore City average of 6.8 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,347, close to the Baltimore average.

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.