Teele Square Eviction Risk: High , Somerville

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 5 tracked years. Average gross rent is $2,887, 15% above the Somerville average.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 0.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Somerville. 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 0.3% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.