Kimball Towers and Court Eviction Risk: Elevated , Woburn

56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 71 filings here across 5 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 5.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Middlesex County average of 6.3 closely.

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