Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Annualized rent equals 66% of average household income of $56,386, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. At $3,109 a month, rents run 45% over what the rest of Boston commands. This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Cost burden runs 60% here against 47.0% across Suffolk County. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

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. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 32 filings here across 5 tracked years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 0.6% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 0.4% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.