New Auburn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lewiston

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 2.7/10. Against the Androscoggin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Cost burden runs around a third here against 41.2% across Androscoggin County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7/10. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the ME average is 4.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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