Brookline Village Eviction Risk: High

The severe-burden share is 33%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. 93% 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.

Set annual rent against average household income of $55,459 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.1/10.

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. Running cool is supply constraint, at 1.8/10.

Filings are well documented here: 245 across 2 observed tracts. SNAP participation is 24.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 2.6% of renter households.

Average gross rent is $1,930, 10% below the Boston average of $2,147. The most recent observed rate, 1.0% in 2016, is well off that peak.

That places it #1 of 57 neighborhoods in Boston.

With little internal variation, 9.5/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.