Dedham Square Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.1/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.6% against 11.3% nationally. At $2,262 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Dedham commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dedham. 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 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

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. Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters.

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.