Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #13,812 of 84,120 nationally
Barre Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25027722100 · Worcester County, MA · pop 5,531 · 14% of tract blocks fall in Barre
Tract 25027722100 sits in Barre, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. It is home to 5,531 residents. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
6.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units1,919
Renter share26.6%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate16.6%
Median income$95,607
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
National
84
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Barre and the region
Centroid at 42.4189, -72.1121 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barre scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Barre
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
16.6% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,272 rent vs county FMR
1.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Barre
9.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Barre
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Barre
6.0
How Barre compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 20
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 9%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 14Total filings over 1 yrs
- 3.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2015)
- 14Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.8%Food insecurity
- 17.2%SNAP enrollment
- 8.1%Transit barriers
- 5.0%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 31.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Barre
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Average gross rent is $1,272, 32% below the Barre average.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Worcester County average of 5.8.
The filing record is not thin: 14 evictions over 1 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #13,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $95,607, annual rent is just 16%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 44% of renters.
27% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 25027722100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25027722100?
Census tract 25027722100 in Barre scores 6.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25027722100?
Median gross rent is $1,272/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25027722100?
16.6% of residents in tract 25027722100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,531.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25027722100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 21th, household 9th, minority 9th, housing 57th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25027722100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 14 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 25027722100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.47% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25027722100 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25027722100 compare to Barre overall?
Tract 25027722100 scores 6.8/10, higher than the parent city of Barre at 6.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Barre; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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