Brickbottom Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

Cost burden runs 57% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $69,063, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. Average gross rent is $1,887, 25% below the Somerville average. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 56 evictions over 5 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 2.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Cambridge. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.