Worcester Eviction Risk: High

Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 2.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 73 filings here across 1 tracked years. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10.

SNAP participation runs 22.4% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,352, 9% below the Worcester average.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 4.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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