Webster Square Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

35% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $873, 41% below the Worcester average.

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 27.1% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 69 filings here across 1 tracked years. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.5% 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 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $58,768, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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