River’s Edge Eviction Risk: Lower , Newburyport

It sits 2.3 points below the Essex County average of 6.0. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.2/10.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,208 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Newburyport commands.

Food insecurity runs 6.9% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.6/10.

Housing insecurity runs 6.3% against 14.2% nationally. Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $114,097, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler.

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.