Inner Belt Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 16.0% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. At $2,538 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Boston commands.

Court records carry 91 eviction filings across 5 observed years. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 2.4% 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $184,879, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.