Wellesley Fells Eviction Risk: Lower

18% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, lower than the Wellesley rate of 27.3%. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

18% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. At $3,501 a month, rents sit 21% over what the rest of Wellesley commands.

Running hot is supply constraint at 7.3/10. 1.9% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

3.0% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That places it #4 of 4 neighborhoods in Wellesley.

Only 4% 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. For a like-for-like read, Poets' Corner and Linden Street score within a fraction of it.

Against average income of $250,001, annual rent is only 17%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3.7/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.