Ten Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.9/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Set annual rent against average income of $109,922 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10.

Cost burden runs 35% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. Disability prevalence runs 18.4% against 31.5% nationally.

The voucher gap is 20.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. It sits 1.1 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.

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.