Bellingham Square Historic District Eviction Risk: High
1 census tracts · pop 4,845 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 8.8/10 · range 8.8–8.8
Bellingham Square Historic District is a one-tract neighborhood of Chelsea, MA and houses 4,845 people. The Eviction Risk Score is 8.8/10, in the High tier. The severe-burden share is 45%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Cost burden runs 62% against 34.7% citywide, putting Bellingham Square Historic District 27.0% over its own city. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 29.6% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 1.8/10.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint is housing-court posture at 7.9/10.
16.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That places it #3 of 7 neighborhoods in Chelsea. For a like-for-like read, Chelsea Square and Bellingham Hill score within a fraction of it.
Social vulnerability runs high at 9.6/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input. Average gross rent runs $1,940, close to the Chelsea average.
Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $80,573. 54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Because the boundary contains one tract, 8.8/10 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.
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Risk heat across Bellingham Square Historic District and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 1 tracts span score 8.8–8.8
Why Bellingham Square Historic District scores 8.8
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyBellingham Square Historic District vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
1 tracts in Bellingham Square Historic District
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25025160103 | 8.8 | 4,845 | 62% | $1,940 |
CDC SVI percentile: 96
Pop-weighted across 1 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in Bellingham Square Historic District
Aggregated across 0 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 50Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly observed
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.47×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Boston, MA).
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Bellingham Square Historic District
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
- 29.6%Housing insecurity
- 16.8%Utility shutoff threat
- 35.5%Food insecurity
- 36.2%SNAP enrollment
- 20.6%No health insurance
- 36.7%Any disability
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