Winchester Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Springfield

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Average gross rent is $734, 36% below the Springfield average.

Housing insecurity runs 32.8% against 14.2% nationally. It sits 2.1 points above the Hampden County average of 5.8.

Against Hampden County at 46.5%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.9/10. That is riskier than roughly 90% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

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.