Braintree Town Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $2,370 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Braintree Town commands.

Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Braintree. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $161,192, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.