The Flats Eviction Risk: High , Boston

77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 56% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. SNAP participation runs 24.2% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 85 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Housing insecurity runs 21.4% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2013 at 1.8% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #5,730 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.