Grove Hall Eviction Risk: High , Boston

SNAP participation runs 36.8% against 15.2% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10.

Average gross rent is $1,400, 35% below the Boston average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 67% 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.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Against the Suffolk County average of 7.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 415 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 8.6% 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 7.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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