Whittenton Eviction Risk: Elevated , Taunton

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.9/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.5 points above the Bristol County average of 6.0. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,113, 16% below the Taunton average.

41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Bristol County average of 45.9%. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 71 evictions over 1 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.2% of renter households were served. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In a typical year about 7.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.5/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

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.