Yale Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wakefield
Tract 25017335302 · Middlesex County, MA · pop 5,100 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Tract 25017335302 sits in the Yale Avenue Historic District area of Wakefield eviction risk, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. Population here is 5,100. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wakefield and the region
Centroid at 42.5132, -71.0493 · click any tract to drill in
Why Yale Avenue Historic District scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Yale Avenue Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 14%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 65Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2014)
- 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 0Total filings 2020-21
- 0.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Boston, MA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Yale Avenue Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 3.0%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 23.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Yale Avenue Historic District
The dominant input is local political climate at 8.3/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.
Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 65 filings here across 5 tracked years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally. 48% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Middlesex County average of 43.0%.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.2% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 24% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Wakefield
Top eight tracts in Wakefield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.