Gardner Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. The filing record is not thin: 24 evictions over 1 years of observation. Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points.

Average gross rent is $996, 10% below the Gardner average. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $71,865, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. 31% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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