Old Cambridge Eviction Risk: High

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.5% against 17.8% nationally. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 38% here against 43.0% across Middlesex County.

At $3,239 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Cambridge commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.8% against 11.3% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 13 evictions over 4 years of observation.

The voucher gap is 14.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2015, when 0.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 0.4% of renter households face a filing.

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