Waterfront Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

At $3,239 a month, rents run 51% over what the rest of Boston commands. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Disability prevalence runs 19.5% against 31.5% nationally. SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The voucher gap is 14.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 25% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $132,307.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.