Brockton Eviction Risk: High

It sits 2.8 points above the Plymouth County average of 5.2. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Court records carry 32 eviction filings across 1 observed years. At $1,402 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Brockton commands.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 5.6% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

In a typical year about 5.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.