Gardner Eviction Risk: Elevated

67% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Worcester County average of 44.4%. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.7 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

SNAP participation runs 24.8% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 45 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 7.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 7.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,101, close to the Gardner average.

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