Ames Hill-Crescent Hill Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Springfield

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 56.6% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 46%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Disability prevalence runs 52.2% against 31.5% nationally. 86% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Against the Hampden County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Average gross rent is $855, 25% below the Springfield average. On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $34,288.

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.