Dorchester Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. At $2,846 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Boston commands.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.4% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Adults with no health insurance runs 2.6% against 11.3% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 23 filings here across 5 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 1.0% 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 0.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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