Brockton Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against the Plymouth County average of 5.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 25.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 47 filings here across 1 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 21.4% against 14.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.4% 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 7.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 90% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,545, close to the Brockton average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.