Church Green Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $75,091, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

At $2,512 a month, rents run 17% over what the rest of Boston commands. The filing record is not thin: 85 evictions over 5 years of observation.

SNAP participation runs 22.7% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2016 at 2.3% of renter households.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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