Harlow Square Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. At $3,501 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Cambridge commands.

The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%.

Food insecurity runs 6.5% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 88 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 1.9% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

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.