Meeting House Hill Eviction Risk: High , Boston

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $45,321, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 76% 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, local political climate reads 8.5/10. At $1,510 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Boston commands. Food insecurity runs 33.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, 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. Housing insecurity runs 25.2% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The filing record is not thin: 157 evictions over 5 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.2% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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