Lower Mills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. The filing record is not thin: 209 evictions over 5 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $1,847, 14% below the Boston average. The worst year on record was 2012, when 7.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 5.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.1/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $114,034.

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.