Lower Allston Eviction Risk: High

69% 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 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 6.7 to 8.8, a 2.1-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. On the high side is rent-regulation exposure at 8/10.

Rent consumes at least 30% of income for roughly one in three of renter households. Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 8/10. 14% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence reaches 18.8% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. The poverty rate is 17%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. At $2,444 a month, rents sit 14% over what the rest of Boston commands.

4.2% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. That places it #26 of 57 neighborhoods in Boston. For a like-for-like read, Allston Heights and Fields Corner score within a fraction of it.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 8.1 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.