Wheeling Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cambridge

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Average gross rent is $940, 19% above the Cambridge average. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The filing record is not thin: 153 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2010 at 5.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $65,885, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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