Ten Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. 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 #11,988 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent is $2,659, close to the Somerville average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.