Salem Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,231 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Salem commands.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. It sits 1.8 points above the Essex County average of 6.0. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10.

Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $72,138.

52% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.