Webster Eviction Risk: High

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 2.2 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.3/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. SNAP participation runs 25.1% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 78 filings here across 1 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 8.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #7,836 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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