Woburn Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower

The 3 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3.4 to 6, a 2.6-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. Rent consumes at least 30% of income for 27% of renter households.

At $2,470 a month, rents sit 24% over what the rest of Reading commands. Severe burden reaches 15%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Court records carry 57 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. 3.3% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Food insecurity affects 8.1% of adults, 9.7 points below the national rate.

The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 3.8% of renter households. Judgments average 0.9% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

Rent takes 19% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.6 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.