Oak Square Eviction Risk: Moderate

Court records carry 35 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. Severe burden reaches 10%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Food insecurity affects 7.1% of adults, 10.7 points below the national rate. 3.0% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. At $2,697 a month, rents sit 14% over what the rest of Newton commands.

Cost burden runs 24% against 27.2% citywide, putting Oak Square 3.6% under its own city. The worst year on record was 2012, when filings touched 1.1% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 0.4% in 2016, is well off that peak. That places it #4 of 11 neighborhoods in Newton. The closest comparables inside the same city are Nonantum and Thompsonville.

Rent takes 16% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

The 3 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.9 points apart at the extremes.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.