Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Falmouth Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 25001014800 · Barnstable County, MA · pop 3,679 · 92% of tract blocks fall in Falmouth
Tract 25001014800 sits in Falmouth, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.8/10. It sits 3.0 points above the Barnstable County average of 4.8.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,890
Renter share49.2%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate27.8%
Median income$57,042
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
National
89
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Falmouth and the region
Centroid at 41.5551, -70.6058 · click any tract to drill in
Why Falmouth scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Falmouth
8.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
27.8% poverty · this tract
7.0
Supply constraint
$1,101 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Falmouth
8.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Falmouth
8.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Falmouth
8.3
How Falmouth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 29Total filings over 2 yrs
- 1.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2015)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.7%Food insecurity
- 17.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 14.4%Frequent mental distress
- 37.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Falmouth
Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10.
Against Barnstable County at 48.4%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 29 eviction filings across 2 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 25001014800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25001014800?
Census tract 25001014800 in Falmouth scores 7.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25001014800?
Median gross rent is $1,101/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25001014800?
27.8% of residents in tract 25001014800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,679.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25001014800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 90th, minority 35th, housing 83th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25001014800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 25001014800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.55% of renter households, peaking at 1.7% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 25001014800 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 25001014800 compare to Falmouth overall?
Tract 25001014800 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Falmouth at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Falmouth; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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