Allston Heights Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Set annual rent against average income of $60,060 and the ratio lands at 44%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 9/10.

The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Suffolk County average of 47.0%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #2,657 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $2,194, close to the Boston average.

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