Monument Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Leominster

Cost burden runs 58% here against 44.4% across Worcester County. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.3/10. SNAP participation runs 33.9% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 1.6 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The filing record is not thin: 47 evictions over 1 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $1,159, 14% below the Leominster average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2015, when 3.7% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.