Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $90,670 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.2/10. Average gross rent is $2,653, 24% above the Boston average.

Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

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. That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, 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.