New Bedford Eviction Risk: High

SNAP participation runs 52.2% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 42.7% against 17.8% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.1/10.

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $30,000, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Bristol County average of 6.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. 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.

The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10.

Court records carry 64 eviction filings across 1 observed years. Average gross rent is $981, 14% below the New Bedford average.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 9.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.