New Auburn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lewiston

Against Androscoggin County at 41.2%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. 93% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.2/10.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $25,184, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Food insecurity runs 34.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Average gross rent is $766, 26% below the Auburn average. Against the Androscoggin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.