Elm Park Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

68% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Worcester County average of 44.4%. Annualized rent equals 77% of average household income of $28,235, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 46.4% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 71%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 97% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. At $1,821 a month, rents run 22% over what the rest of Worcester commands.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, local political climate reads 7/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.2/10.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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.