Hillside Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Medford

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $62,104, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters. 44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.