Marblehead Neck Eviction Risk: Lower

32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.4% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10.

Against Essex County at 50.7%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 5.8% against 15.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $151,675, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $1,784, close to the Marblehead average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.