Bulfinch Triangle Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.5% against 31.5% nationally.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.4% against 11.3% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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