Waterfront Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The voucher gap is 23.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 4.9% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.1/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.