Bulfinch Triangle Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

This is renter territory: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 17.0% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Court records carry 21 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.0% against 11.3% nationally. Average gross rent is $2,362, 10% above the Boston average. The worst year on record was 2013, when 0.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Boston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.