Brighton Center Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 68% 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, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. Court records carry 178 eviction filings across 5 observed years. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.4% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #4,888 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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