Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 4.6% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Housing insecurity runs 5.6% against 14.2% nationally.

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. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $224,821, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

44% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.