Cedarwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Waltham

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 54 evictions over 4 years of observation. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally.

At $2,500 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Waltham commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when 1.2% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Waltham. 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 1.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 2.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, 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.