Inman Square Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. It sits 1.8 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 24 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.6% 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 0.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.7/10.

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