Malden Gaming District Eviction Risk: High

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Middlesex County average of 43.0%.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 113 filings here across 5 tracked years. At $1,902 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Malden commands.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 2.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Medford. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 93% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.