Hillside Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Medford

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. On the high side, 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. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 14 filings here across 5 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $2,854, 14% above the Medford average. Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 1.4% of renter households.

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. In a typical year about 0.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.