Central Business District Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

It sits 2.2 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8. 56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Worcester County average of 44.4%. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.5/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $52,782 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 29.0% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7/10. Court records carry 98 eviction filings across 1 observed years.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 8.3% of renter households.

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.