Frederick Douglass Square Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Boston

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 346 filings here across 5 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 8.3% of renter households were served. 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 5.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #3,797 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 2.9 points hotter.

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