Brockton Eviction Risk: High

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

Against Plymouth County at 46.6%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 29.1% against 17.8% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 25.4% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $1,374 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Brockton commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brockton. 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 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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.