South Brookline Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newton

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 5.1% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points below the Middlesex County average of 6.3. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10.

38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Middlesex County average of 43.0%. Housing insecurity runs 5.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.3/10. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Brookline. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

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.