Deering Center Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portland

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Cumberland County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Food insecurity runs 6.2% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.8/10.

43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Cumberland County average of 38.5%. SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 3.1/10.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10. Statewide the ME average is 4.5, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.