Old Ship Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Medford

35% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 29 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.8% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4/10.

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.