Melrose Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. At $2,500 a month, rents run 27% over what the rest of Melrose commands.

It sits 1.3 points below the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.4% against 11.3% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 9% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, 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.