Kensington Park Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Arlington

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points.

Cost burden runs 37% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.5% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.9/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $156,316, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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