Malden Gaming District Eviction Risk: High

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. 20% 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.

Against Middlesex County at 43.0%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Malden. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 91% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter. Average gross rent is $1,943, close to the Everett average. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $98,788.

53% 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.