Poets' Corner Eviction Risk: Lower , Wellesley

It sits 1.8 points below the Norfolk County average of 5.6. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 21% above the Wellesley average. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, supply constraint reads 7.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.8% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 5.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.1/10. This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Newton. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $242,379, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.