Medford historic districts Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $1,720, 25% above the Medford average. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. The voucher gap is 18.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.6/10. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 50% of renters. It tracks the Jackson County average of 6.1 closely.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $87,554. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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