Laurelwood Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 54% against 43.8% citywide, putting Laurelwood 9.7% over its own city. Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.7/10.

Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1.8/10. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 6.0% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. Court records for this tract carry 6 eviction filings.

2.3% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 2.9% of renter households. At $1,473 a month, rents sit 8% under what the rest of North Scituate commands.

Judgments average 2.0% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. At 8% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

Rent takes 10% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

One tract means one number: 3.4/10 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.