Allston Heights Eviction Risk: High

78% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 7.4 to 9.5, a 2.1-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

Running hot is rent-regulation exposure at 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 8/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Court records for this tract carry 53 eviction filings. The worst year on record was 2012, when filings touched 1.5% of renter households.

5.1% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The most recent observed rate, 0.7% in 2016, is well off that peak. Among the 57 mapped neighborhoods of Boston, it ranks #25 by risk, the middle third.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Aberdeen and Ashmont. Average gross rent runs $2,214, close to the Boston average. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $83,893.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 8.2 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.