Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Gardiner Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 23011011000 · Kennebec County, ME · pop 4,306
With a score of 3.8/10, tract 23011011000 in Gardiner, ME reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,938
Renter share29.2%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate7.0%
Median income$68,178
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Gardiner and the region
Centroid at 44.1740, -69.7959 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gardiner scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Gardiner
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Maine legislature & governorship
4.0
Economic stress
7.0% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$963 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Gardiner
5.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Gardiner
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Gardiner
5.7
How Gardiner compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 14.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.9%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 33.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gardiner
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.8/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10. At $963 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Gardiner commands.
Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $68,178, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 39% of renters. It tracks the Kennebec County average of 4.3 closely.
29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 23011011000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 23011011000?
Census tract 23011011000 in Gardiner scores 3.8/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 23011011000?
Median gross rent is $963/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 23011011000?
7.0% of residents in tract 23011011000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,306.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 23011011000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 31th, minority 5th, housing 50th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 23011011000 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 23011011000 compare to Gardiner overall?
Tract 23011011000 scores 3.8/10, lower than the parent city of Gardiner at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Gardiner eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Gardiner
Top eight tracts in Gardiner ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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