Cushing Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Belmont

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 5 evictions over 4 years of observation.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $2,264, 10% below the Belmont average. Filings peaked in 2012 at 0.8% of renter households.

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. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 18% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $228,281, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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