Davis Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

69% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Court records carry 9 eviction filings across 4 observed years. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Average gross rent is $2,827, 12% above the Somerville average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 0.9% 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 0.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 1.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

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