Baldwin Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Court records carry 28 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.7% against 11.3% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.2% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #3,797 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter.

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