Kettering Eviction Risk: Moderate

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Cost burden runs 37% here against 42.9% across Montgomery County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 699 filings here across 17 tracked years. 8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.4% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $75,486, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Montgomery County average of 4.2 closely.

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