Spring Hill Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Somerville

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.7% against 31.5% nationally.

The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3.

37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. 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 #9,927 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.