Ware Center Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25015820101 · Hampshire County, MA · pop 6,519 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
With a score of 5.7/10, tract 25015820101 in the Ware Center Historic District area of Ware, MA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,519. 42% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Ware and the region
Centroid at 42.2746, -72.2911 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ware Center Historic District scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ware Center Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 6%Racial/ethnic minority
- 25%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 381Total filings over 12 yrs
- 7.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.0%Peak (2012)
- 31Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.0%Housing insecurity
- 7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 14.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 4.7%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 30.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ware Center Historic District
Pulling hardest the other way is court filing pressure at 0.6/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 381 filings here across 12 tracked years. Against Hampshire County at 46.3%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Average gross rent is $1,142, 10% above the Ware average. Filings peaked in 2012 at 12.0% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.6% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Social vulnerability reads 3.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $93,274, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Ware
Top eight tracts in Ware ranked by composite eviction-risk score.