Fay Street Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. 73% 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. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 7/10.

The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 38 filings here across 1 tracked years.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10. Average gross rent is $1,671, 12% above the Worcester average.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.