Poets' Corner Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress, at 1/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 21% above the Wellesley average of $2,886. The severe-burden share is 14%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 5.4% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint is supply constraint at 7.3/10. 2.5% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

That places it #2 of 4 neighborhoods in Wellesley. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Against average income of $242,379, annual rent is only 17%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

One tract means one number: 3.8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.