Fisher Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brookline

Cost burden runs around a third here against 48.1% across Norfolk County. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, 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.

SNAP participation runs 4.4% against 15.2% nationally. The voucher gap is 16.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Housing insecurity runs 4.8% against 14.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $3,313, 17% above the Brookline average. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brookline. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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