Highland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Boston

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Suffolk County average of 47.0%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Average gross rent is $2,615, 22% above the Boston average.

It sits 1.2 points below the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Food insecurity runs 6.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least 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 20% of average household income of $154,528. 34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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