Rice Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Worcester

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 2.0 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8. The dominant input is local political climate at 7/10.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. SNAP participation runs 23.7% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 40 eviction filings across 1 observed years.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10. Filings peaked in 2015 at 4.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,575, close to the Worcester average.

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