Financial Stress · District of Columbia
District of Columbia — financial stress by county
The Financial Stress Index (FSI) combines renter cost burden, eviction rate, and debt in collections into a 0–100 score. District of Columbia has all three inputs and receives a score. District of Columbia's FSI score is 58.0.
Data note: The eviction rate component draws from the Princeton Eviction Lab's last national county release (2018). Post-pandemic eviction trends are not reflected in these scores — counties with high pre-2020 eviction activity may score differently if updated data were available. Rent burden and debt figures use 2024 ACS and Urban Institute data; the debt-collections input reflects credit-active adults only — those with a credit-bureau file.
National comparison · District of Columbia
How does District of Columbia compare nationally?
Among states with reliable FSI coverage (≥60% of counties scored), District of Columbia ranks #9 of 36 states. The average FSI of 58.0 is 10% above the national average FSI of 52.6.
District of Columbia ranks #7 of 12 in the South by average FSI score — between Virginia (61.6) just above and West Virginia (56.4) just below.
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District of Columbia's FSI score
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