Oak Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newton

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is court filing pressure at 2.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.3/10. Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 3.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Middlesex County average of 6.3 closely. Average gross rent runs $2,373 a month.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $137,104. 58% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.