Worcester Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 25027730902 · Worcester County, MA · pop 4,020
Worcester anchors census tract 25027730902, which lands at 6.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 85th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 47% of renter households, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,301 a month against an average household income of $82,697 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Worcester and the region
Centroid at 42.2688, -71.8472 · click any tract to drill in
Why Worcester scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Worcester compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 47%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%Housing & transportation
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)
- 7Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2015)
- 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 15.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.7%Transit barriers
- 4.7%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Worcester
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Worcester eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Worcester County average of 6.0 and above the Massachusetts statewide average of 5.9. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 7 eviction filings here over 1 tracked years, with about 1.7% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 1.7% of renter households in 2015.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 25027730902
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Highest-risk tracts in Worcester
Top eight tracts in Worcester ranked by composite eviction-risk score.