Fay Street Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. It sits 2.2 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8.

SNAP participation runs 31.6% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,139 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Worcester commands.

Cost burden runs 37% here against 44.4% across Worcester County. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.1/10. Food insecurity runs 25.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7/10. Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.