City Hall Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Lowell

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Cost burden runs 55% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. SNAP participation runs 26.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 372 evictions over 5 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 7.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,636, close to the Lowell average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.