South Common Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lowell

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 217 evictions over 5 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 8.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 6.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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