Newton Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.8% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Middlesex County average of 6.3, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Against Middlesex County at 43.0%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.5/10. At $1,982 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Newton commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 0.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10.

Against average income of $242,389, annual rent is just 10%.

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.