Howard Eviction Data
Warrant-of-restitution activity in Howard — petitioned, executed, cancelled, or expired.
Maryland is the only state in the country that requires every District Court to publish each warrant of restitution and its outcome — petitions filed, executions, cancellations, expirations. This page is scoped to Howard. Adjust the time period or case type filters below — every chart re-renders instantly.
Heads up: this data only covers the warrant phase — it does NOT include initial FTPR filings, summons, judgments, or any pre-warrant court events. The numbers below describe what happens after a landlord has already won judgment and asked for the writ.
The full Maryland statewide view is at /tools/maryland-eviction-data.
- Source
- Open Data Maryland
- Coverage
- Howard only
- Date range
- Jan 2023 → Mar 2026
- Sync cadence
- Every morning, 04:00 ET
- Last sync
- May 5, 2026
- Publishing lag
- ~1–3 months
The state publishes new events as court clerks key them in. Most-recent months under-count until clerks catch up.
Statewide indicators (Last 12 months)
Monthly events
Every warrant-of-restitution event reported by Howard District Court, stacked by outcome. Petitions are the top of the funnel; executions, cancellations, and expirations are how those petitions resolve.
Jurisdiction context
Howard highlighted on the Maryland map. Switch the metric to compare it against statewide warrant petitions, executions, or cancellations within the selected period.
What happens to a warrant petition?
Of every warrant of restitution petitioned in Howard in the selected period, what share is executed by the sheriff, cancelled before execution (tenant paid, settled, or moved out), or expires? Note: not every petition has resolved yet — pending warrants are not in this dataset.
Case mix
The composition of Howard warrant petitions in the selected period. Failure-to-Pay-Rent dominates — but hold-overs, wrongful detainers, and lease breaches all show up.
Composition (selected period)
- FAILURE TO PAY RENT3,079 · 97.2%
- TENANT HOLDING OVER41 · 1.3%
- WRONGFUL DETAINER30 · 0.9%
- BREACH OF LEASE17 · 0.5%
All Maryland jurisdictions
Howard ranking shown in context of all 24 jurisdictions. Use the sort dropdown to compare on volume, executions, cancellations, or rate.
| # | Jurisdiction | Petitions | Executed | Cancelled | Share of top |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOWARD← this page | 3,167 | 325 | 2,637 | 100% |
Top 25 tenant ZIP codes in Howard
ZIP codes with the most warrant petitions in Howard in the selected period. Tenant ZIP is clerk-entered; not every record has one. Useful for housing-stability research and outreach targeting.
| # | ZIP | Petitions | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21044 | 912 | |
| 2 | 20723 | 466 | |
| 3 | 21075 | 416 | |
| 4 | 21043 | 403 | |
| 5 | 21045 | 297 | |
| 6 | 21046 | 258 | |
| 7 | 20794 | 88 | |
| 8 | 21042 | 86 | |
| 9 | 21076 | 80 | |
| 10 | 20763 | 59 | |
| 11 | 20701 | 11 | |
| 12 | 20777 | 9 | |
| 13 | 21797 | 9 | |
| 14 | 20759 | 4 | |
| 15 | 21738 | 3 | |
| 16 | 21794 | 3 | |
| 17 | 21029 | 2 | |
| 18 | 21201 | 2 | |
| 19 | 21404 | 2 | |
| 20 | 21737 | 2 | |
| 21 | 21036 | 1 | |
| 22 | 21163 | 1 |
Year-over-year warrant petitions
One line per year, x-axis the month. A higher line means a busier court that year in Howard. The 2023 → 2024 → 2025 trajectory hints at where eviction pressure is heading.
Source: District Court of Maryland Eviction Case Data (mandated by 2022 Maryland law; published via Open Data Maryland).
Scope of this dataset: The 2022 law requires reporting of warrants of restitution and their outcomes — not initial FTPR filings or judgments. Every record in this dashboard is one of four event types: petition for warrant filed, warrant return — evicted, warrant return — cancelled, or warrant return — expired. So when you see “petitions” here, that means a landlord has already won a judgment and is asking the court for the writ to physically remove the tenant.
Refresh + publishing lag: EvictPro syncs deltas from the source dataset every morning at 04:00 ET via the Open Data API. When the state ships new records, we have them within 24 hours. However, the state itself publishes events on a ~1–3 month lag — court clerks enter each warrant manually, and the most-recent months always under-count until clerks catch up. Last successful sync: May 5, 2026 (status: SUCCESS). Latest court event in our copy of the dataset: Mar 31, 2026.
Filters: Time period, jurisdiction, and case type filters are sticky in the URL — share the URL and recipients see the same view.
Important caveats:
- The state notes that the data reflects “when the data is entered by the clerk,” not always the calendar date the action occurred. Recent months may under-count until clerks finish data entry.
- Petitions and outcomes don't reconcile inside a calendar window — a warrant petitioned in Q4 may not return service until Q1. Resolution rates are most reliable when read across the full dataset, not a single month.
- Some recent petitions are still pending — the executed/cancelled/ expired shares add up to less than 100% of petitions until everything resolves.
- Tenant ZIP codes are clerk-entered and missing on a fraction of records. The “Top 25 ZIPs” table reflects only records with a valid 5-digit tenant ZIP.
- “Baltimore” alone (without “City”/“County”) is treated as Baltimore County for the choropleth, since the 24 jurisdictions include both.
Compare with neighboring jurisdictions
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