Sixth Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes the score up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. On the high side is economic stress at 9/10.

This is a renter market: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 19%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint is housing-court posture at 8.5/10.

Against a Portsmouth baseline of 33.7%, 41% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. At $579 a month, rents sit 22% under what the rest of Portsmouth commands.

Filings are well documented here: 760 across 2 observed tracts. 15.5% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Food insecurity affects 28.4% of adults, 10.6 points above the national rate.

Filing activity peaked in 2003 at 7.4% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 4.1% in 2013, is well off that peak.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.