Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Annualized rent equals 58% of average household income of $44,811, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.9/10.

This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. SNAP participation runs 24.5% against 15.2% nationally. 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.

Nationally it ranks #2,657 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 3.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

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.