Greendale Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Needham

At $3,501 a month, rents run 45% over what the rest of Needham commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.1/10. Cost burden runs 35% here against 48.1% across Norfolk County.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.2% against 11.3% nationally.

Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.3/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Needham. 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.

At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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.