Mount Hope Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Suffolk County at 47.0%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Average gross rent is $1,809, 16% below the Boston average. Court records carry 37 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.5% of renter households. 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #14,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $107,450.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.