Barnstable Town Eviction Risk: Elevated

Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $43,868, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 77% 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.

SNAP participation runs 32.5% against 15.2% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.9/10. Against the Barnstable County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,622 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Barnstable Town commands.

The filing record is not thin: 166 evictions over 2 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 25.5% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 6.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.