Harlow Square Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

It sits 3.6 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Set annual rent against average income of $79,318 and the ratio lands at 50%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $3,332, 20% above the Cambridge average. The voucher gap is 17.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 5 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 0.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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