Massachusetts Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 24%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 5.2 to 7.5, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. The clearest offset is economic stress, at 2.1/10.

At $1,754 a month, rents sit 18% over what the rest of Worcester commands. Court records carry 56 eviction filings across its 3 observed tracts. Running hot is eviction-process difficulty at 7/10.

The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 4.7% of renter households. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 7/10. 4.6% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

That places it #18 of 17 neighborhoods in Worcester. Judgments average 0.9% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.3 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.