Piedmont Eviction Risk: Moderate , Worcester

39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Worcester County average of 44.4%. Running hot, local political climate reads 7/10. The filing record is not thin: 11 evictions over 1 years of observation.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.2/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $119,429, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Worcester County average of 5.8 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,505, close to the Worcester average. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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