Woburn Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower , Reading

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.9 points. Average gross rent is $2,967, 49% above the Reading average.

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 5.7% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 28 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.