New Bedford Eviction Risk: High

Against Bristol County at 45.9%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 36.3% against 15.2% nationally.

This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Bristol County average of 6.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,903 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10. Housing insecurity runs 24.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Court records carry 55 eviction filings across 1 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 4.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.