Dorchester Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

At $2,951 a month, rents run 37% over what the rest of Boston commands. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9.

Food insecurity runs 7.3% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 23 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Adults with no health insurance runs 2.9% against 11.3% nationally. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 1.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.