Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Boston

75% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. Annualized rent equals 86% of average household income of $29,779, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

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

It sits 1.6 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. SNAP participation runs 29.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 83 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Food insecurity runs 26.2% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.1% of renter households. 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.

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