Framingham Eviction Risk: High

SNAP participation runs 45.3% against 15.2% nationally. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Food insecurity runs 38.9% against 17.8% nationally.

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. 87% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $54,651, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. At $1,480 a month, rents run 27% under what the rest of Framingham commands.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 659 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 10.1% of renter households.

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