Teele Square Eviction Risk: High , Somerville

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Cost burden runs 37% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County. SNAP participation runs 8.2% against 15.2% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

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.