Brookline Village Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.4% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 1.5 points above the Norfolk County average of 5.6. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.4% against 11.3% nationally. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.8/10.

Against Norfolk County at 48.1%, 44% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $3,068 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Brookline commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.