Bacon-Morse Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Southbridge Town

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Worcester County average of 44.4%. The filing record is not thin: 27 evictions over 1 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 4.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $78,030, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Worcester County average of 5.8 closely. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.