Forest Hills Eviction Risk: High , Boston

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 40.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Housing insecurity runs 43.5% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 85%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Suffolk County average of 7.9. Court records carry 3 eviction filings across 3 observed years. 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 97th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Statewide the MA average is 6.2, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter.

Model confidence here is 60%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.

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