South Common Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lowell

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.3/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 63 filings here across 5 tracked years. Cost burden runs 39% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.

Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,459, 10% below the Lowell average.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 3.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $117,007, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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