Audubon Circle Eviction Risk: High , Boston

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $67,380, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.7% against 11.3% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. At $2,392 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Boston commands.

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 #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.9/10.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter.

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