Teele Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.2/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7 filings here across 4 tracked years. Average gross rent is $2,834, 13% above the Somerville average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 0.8% of renter households were served. 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 86th 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.

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