Coolidge Hill Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 2.0 points above the Middlesex County average of 6.3.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 4.4% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $3,375, 21% above the Cambridge average. The voucher gap is 19.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

SNAP participation runs 4.8% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 8 evictions over 4 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 1.2% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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