Gove Street Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

81% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $74,704, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 61 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.2% 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 1.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

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.