Dorchester Crossing Eviction Risk: Lower , Summerville

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.8/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 1,180 evictions over 6 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,366, 10% below the Summerville average.

The worst year on record was 2010, when 37.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 24.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Dorchester County average of 3.5 closely. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $68,750.

48% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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