West Somerville Eviction Risk: High , Cambridge

Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Disability prevalence runs 18.4% against 31.5% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 2.6% against 11.3% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 11 filings here across 4 tracked years. 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 Somerville. 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. Nationally it ranks #5,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 2.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $2,953, close to the Cambridge average.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.