Fitchburg Eviction Risk: Elevated

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. SNAP participation runs 30.6% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 25.4% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,063, 13% below the Fitchburg average.

On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $57,194.

51% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.