South Medford Eviction Risk: High

Set annual rent against average income of $69,539 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 71 filings here across 5 tracked years. At $2,229 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Medford commands.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.8% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 44% of renters.

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.