Night Caps Corner Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running cool is supply constraint, at 2.5/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Court records carry 31 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 7.0% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. 2.9% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

Against a Newton baseline of 27.2%, 31% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 1.3% of renter households.

Average gross rent is $2,136, 10% below the Newton average of $2,370. Among the 11 mapped neighborhoods of Newton, it ranks #8 by risk, the lower third. Judgments average 0.3% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Lasell Village and Thompsonville. Rent takes 17% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

With little internal variation, 5.1/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.