West Somerville Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cambridge

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.4/10.

At $1,803 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Medford commands. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 35 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.5% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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