Columbia Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Arlington

Cost burden runs 28% here against 38.9% across Arlington County. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The filing record is not thin: 69 evictions over 1 years of observation. At $2,055 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Arlington commands.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.