Spring Hill Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The clearest offset is economic stress, at 1.8/10. Running hot is eviction-process difficulty at 8/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 65 evictions logged in this tract.

Food insecurity affects 7.0% of adults, 10.8 points below the national rate. 3.2% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The worst year on record was 2014, when filings touched 1.7% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 0.8% in 2016, is well off that peak. That places it #6 of 10 neighborhoods in Somerville.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Winter Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts and Ten Hills. Poverty sits at 7%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

With little internal variation, 7.6/10 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.