Gaslight District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Manchester

This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $1,032, 34% below the Manchester average. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Hillsborough County average of 4.0. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 41% here against 45.2% across Hillsborough County. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Manchester. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 10/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the NH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $55,145.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.