Hillside Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. The 3 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.7 to 8, a 2.3-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. 21% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side is economic stress, at 1.8/10. At $1,952 a month, rents sit 22% under what the rest of Medford commands.

Court records for this tract carry 14 eviction filings. 3.6% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 2.9/10.

Food insecurity affects 8.4% of adults, 9.4 points below the national rate. The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 1.4% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 0.3% in 2016, is well off that peak. Among the 4 mapped neighborhoods of Medford, it ranks #3 by risk, the lower third.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.3 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.