Buttonwood Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Brookline

Cost burden runs 73% here against 48.1% across Norfolk County. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against the Norfolk County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.