Downtown Crossing Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,817, 31% above the Boston average. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

Adults with no health insurance runs 2.8% against 11.3% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally.

8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.