Ten Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Average gross rent is $2,133, 15% below the Somerville average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Cambridge. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $111,201.

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