Wakefield Eviction Risk: Elevated , Baltimore

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Against Baltimore City at 50.2%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 25.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10. Statewide the MD average is 5.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.