Montclair Eviction Risk: Elevated , Quincy

It sits 1.8 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10.

Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.3/10. Average gross rent is $2,485, 17% above the Quincy average.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $116,630.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.